Fastest QOL?
12-26-2014 | 12:31 PM
#61
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From: B-717 FO / C-17 AC
12-26-2014 | 12:33 PM
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Really? Then why did they award it to 9 newhires? Why is a colleague who got it on the Feb bid going to school starting tomorrow. You tend to post in absolutes. The 767s were supposed to be gone at the end of February. Why didn't the Feb bid account for the reduction of them? I continue to move up every bid on it. They just said there won't be a March bid. Sorry, I don't believe you.
12-27-2014 | 07:49 PM
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From: B-717 FO / C-17 AC
sounds like md80, and if that's not available then airbus to MIA then bid over. there were a bunch of md80s to dfw handed out to new hires in 2014 which is surprising considering its a senior base. But then again new hires are able to bid over to ORD and LAX rather quickly too. I love that the new hire seat lock is only 6 months so if an opportunity pops up to go elsewhere youre not restricted by your fleet.
12-28-2014 | 03:33 AM
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Two rules about dfw:
in growth mode, it goes quite junior...and in shrinkage mode, it is the most senior base around.
From 2001 thru 2009, if you were junior it was literally impossible to be awarded a dfw bid after all the displacements. It literally took many dfw displaced guys almost 8 years to be reinstated.
Flip side is today...you can get awarded dfw as a new hire. -80, Bus, 737 and even the 767 Intl are incredibly junior today.
in growth mode, it goes quite junior...and in shrinkage mode, it is the most senior base around.
From 2001 thru 2009, if you were junior it was literally impossible to be awarded a dfw bid after all the displacements. It literally took many dfw displaced guys almost 8 years to be reinstated.
Flip side is today...you can get awarded dfw as a new hire. -80, Bus, 737 and even the 767 Intl are incredibly junior today.
12-28-2014 | 05:32 AM
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Wait a minute. . I thought you are a new hire at Delta? In another thread, you were giving advice to bid the 717 for QOL, saying how it is a better plane, even if you are on the MD88.
12-28-2014 | 07:42 AM
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Guys leave AA for Delta too. Usually it's a base thing. Most seem to be staying put wherever they happen to have been hired. I had two in my class that turned down Delta interviews, and I'm sure it's the same over there when AA calls.
Obviously it's hard to predict this industry, but I think anyone at the big three is gonna be just fine.
Obviously it's hard to predict this industry, but I think anyone at the big three is gonna be just fine.
12-28-2014 | 08:39 AM
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I should have indicated that I had my tongue in my cheek. I think most, without a base preference, would prefer Delta over AA...due (mostly) to the current pay rates (rather compensation) and current management. But, people who live in a base can make other decisions...take it from a guy who lives in an AA base and turned down a Delta class at the beginning of the year (in the very front of their hiring wave.)
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