When I posted my original statement about my interview, I tried to be as humble about the entire process and my outcome. I was simply giving you all background as well as perspective on the process. My reply to the original post was just that, I could've walked in and they looked at me and just didn't care for me. Or the interview in their mind just didn't measure up. I truly do not know. They asked me back so I didn't crash too badly. The interview was quite vanilla with the majority of my time spent with them asking about sick time at my previous job(which was once in 10 years and zero in 7 years of time at DGS. When some of you ask if my time in the building should help, the point isn't whether it should or shouldn't, but you have actual information(seven years worth) to go and ask the personnel in the fleet to help you make an informed decision.

I spent three hours of interview preparation one week prior to the interview with one of the HR guys at DELTA who in fact did pilot interviews. He ran a consulting business on the side. My interview mirrored his practice session. So I found it even more interesting to compare one HR person's perspective with another within one week. The three hour preparation went extremely well. I even went to three other services for interview preparation. My point to any of you is this.

Even though I worked at Delta, I took nothing for granted and was humbled to have the interview. But as this subject was bounced around, some of you have(and rightfully are entitled to) an opinion about whether time within a company should help towards your employment.

So in a 45 minute interview who knows more, the fleet I worked with for seven years plus the hundreds of pilots and personnel in and around Delta that I came in contact with or a retired pilot, a first officer in the flight office in SLC and an HR rep I sit down with for 45 minutes whose biggest worry is my sick leave usage.

One more piece to the puzzle. I quit UAL years earlier. I reapplied, interviewed and they hired me back. I went into the DAL interview and they asked me if anyone else had interviewed me or hired me. I was honest with Delta. Naturally, they asked me who I wanted to work for. I answered that truthfully as well based on my seven years of experience at DAL.

As I said before, an outstanding group of pilots I was fortunate to work with. Blessed to have that opportunity.