ESQ702

I don’t have any argument with what you and excargodog are saying (and thanks for the replies), but there has to be a general timeframe involved re: Delta because their contract will expire at some point without renewal, right?

Excargodog

Yes, but it’s a private contract and the terms aren’t publicly known. It expires in 2020 but exactly WHEN in 2020 is a little iffy. Nobody is going to abruptly take 36 aircraft out of circulation. Well, OK, if they are MAX’s maybe, but the pax don’t go away and the 36 aircraft are too big a capital investment for Delta to want to stand them all down prior to having the resources to utilize them, and even if Skywest or Mesa had a spare 350 pilots just sitting around on reserve somewhere, all the aircraft need conformity checks before they can be transferred to another certificate.

http://atis.casa.go.kr/ACS/document4...ction_RevA.pdf

So if they decided to do conformity checks on two aircraft a week they could transfer them out in only 18 weeks. Exactly how the drawdown goes - if at all - depends on the exact dates (which we don’t know) and how quickly they vacancy get the conformity checks done and how quickly Skywest (or whoever) can spin up 350 pilots and the needed maintenance and other personnel. That could conceivably be another year... or not happen at all.

Assuming, that is, the whole take them away thing isn’t some gigantic bluff to make HK low ball his renewal bid or Delta doesn’t decide to buy us back (Delta sold us to T-SHIRT originally) and combine us with Endeavour or sell us to Skywest or Republic or Mesa.

Like I said, it’s all smoke. You might want a solid answer - hell, everybody working for every regional would like solid answers, but they are often in pretty short supply.

ESQ702

Makes perfect sense. I appreciate the helpful answers!!

thrustisamust

Seems everyone's well aware of the limbo situation with the Delta contract. How about the AA flying? Is this contract set to be up in the end of 2019?

DiamondDriver

Its been answered about 10000x on this forum. No.

TillerTemptress

DL summer-ish 2020 and it may be renewed, nobody knows that but Delta and maaaybe TSH. AA is 2023 with option to extend.

stang

I understand that the Compass interview has nothing technical on it. I am just curious as to the logic behind this? It makes sense they want good people so general interview and then perhaps the technical portions are already known / can be studied since have all the ratings etc.

VIRotate

It’s because they don’t want to see how well you can memorize and draw a 172s electrical system. They want to see if you can make good decisions in the cockpit and working well with another crew member. So that’s why the interview is 100% focused on this.

stang

Or airspeeds at which altitude. Makes sense to me and appreciate the forward thinking of it.

poorflyer

I’m pretty sure this is our interview now: