Originally Posted by
450knotOffice
From my buddy who’s now a captain on the 320 out of ATL:
“No email that I remember. Personally, I think the idea of a congratulatory email for passing a checkride is not necessary. After all, you’re hired because they think it’s a given you’ll pass.”
Plus, he just finished his upgrade training, having previously flown the 767-400 prior to his upgrade into the Airbus. He mentioned no congratulatory email for that milestone either.
I'm at Delta. You can't walk through the training center without people stopping to welcome you if you remotely look like a new hire. Between line pilots and management types, it really is pretty well anyone you bump into or sees you in a hallway congratulates you personally.
Congratulation e-mail wasn't for the check-ride, but there were personal congratulations at the check-ride. I got 3 different congratulation e-mails from 3 different sources when I got off IOE, as well as a couple e-mails after INDOC. I consider that to be close enough. I can't speak for the upgrades, but my sim partner was an upgrade and the APD and FAA observer we had made a bit of a thing about a congratulation to him and the APD had a set of CA wings to present to him.