Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Delta pays for all required Visa's. I have held a French Visa for 20 years and they have never allowed them to be issued other then in person. He is referring to the time involved to get those Visa's not the cost. Takes almost a day to get the French Visa with the travel involved.
I spent about one minute at the end of a trip dropping off my passport at the CPs office so the staff could get my French Visa for me (or any crewmember that needed a visa). Those that had never flown international dropped off their passports with the training staff during initial qual and they magically reappeared about a week later with French Visas. Personal time spent - zero. We didn't have to do any travel to get a French Visa. NW paid for a courier/walk through service and for expediting at the Chicago Embassy.
That will change now with the new biometric requirements for French (and soon China) visas.