Atlas Air Hiring
01-22-2015 | 11:44 AM
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Atlas doesn't offer any travel benefits for your family except for some kind of flat rate ID90 on Delta I believe. Please correct me if I'm wrong. All I could find in the forum is a $200 stby ticket on Delta. I know pilots keep their mileage when they deadhead on AA, Delta, etc so is there any good options as far as credit cards go to maximize those miles? American and US airways are offering 50,000 bonus miles to new members right now. I'm thinking about applying for both and having those miles merge whenever they merge the credit card points.
01-22-2015 | 12:30 PM
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From: MD-11
I have a marriott rewards card for hotels. We stay in enough Marriotts to make it worth while. I also have that same card tied to Delta restaurants for which then gives me both airline and hotel miles on one transaction. I've been here 2 years in February and have earned just over 240k Delta miles. I have miles on AA and UA but living in the southeast I use Delta more often when vacationing. when you start commuting you're able to send in your mileage rewards numbers for all the Airlines and it will automatically show up on your reservation. Typically I can look at my reservation on my Delta App before I even Hangup the phone with the travel office. I then pick my seats on my own.
01-22-2015 | 01:15 PM
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I have a marriott rewards card for hotels. We stay in enough Marriotts to make it worth while. I also have that same card tied to Delta restaurants for which then gives me both airline and hotel miles on one transaction. I've been here 2 years in February and have earned just over 240k Delta miles. I have miles on AA and UA but living in the southeast I use Delta more often when vacationing. when you start commuting you're able to send in your mileage rewards numbers for all the Airlines and it will automatically show up on your reservation. Typically I can look at my reservation on my Delta App before I even Hangup the phone with the travel office. I then pick my seats on my own.
01-22-2015 | 01:38 PM
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From: Knuckle-dragging line pilot
YMMV. I fly almost exclusively on Delta and barely made Silver status last year. A 1-hour flight to/from CVG every month doesn't mean a whole lot. Depends on your aircraft/base. While anybody can be assigned anything, I always ride company airplanes on the long DHs to/from Asia. Maybe I'll have a few short DHs around Asia during my pattern. JFK 767 guys have some trips where they'll commercial you from home to Bahrain and back at the end, so that could add up. I'd say in general the 747 guys DH on commercial carriers a lot more than we do.
01-22-2015 | 02:54 PM
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YMMV. I fly almost exclusively on Delta and barely made Silver status last year. A 1-hour flight to/from CVG every month doesn't mean a whole lot. Depends on your aircraft/base. While anybody can be assigned anything, I always ride company airplanes on the long DHs to/from Asia. Maybe I'll have a few short DHs around Asia during my pattern. JFK 767 guys have some trips where they'll commercial you from home to Bahrain and back at the end, so that could add up. I'd say in general the 747 guys DH on commercial carriers a lot more than we do.
01-22-2015 | 05:43 PM
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From: Ex USAF, ex-ATA , currently Atlas Air 747 CA
True that it varies depending on home vs base and which airplane. I'm in my 5th year here and live in Montana while being based in JFK. I've made platinum on Delta for two years now and have just under 400K miles. That's after using 60K last July to purchase a years membership in the Sky Club. If the cards fall your way on the variables it works pretty well!
01-23-2015 | 12:54 AM
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Atlas doesn't offer any travel benefits for your family except for some kind of flat rate ID90 on Delta I believe. Please correct me if I'm wrong. All I could find in the forum is a $200 stby ticket on Delta. I know pilots keep their mileage when they deadhead on AA, Delta, etc so is there any good options as far as credit cards go to maximize those miles? American and US airways are offering 50,000 bonus miles to new members right now. I'm thinking about applying for both and having those miles merge whenever they merge the credit card points.
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