Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 2636604)

I wonder how much this will cost them per pilot?

All this appears to be is panic mode money throwing money at Big Ed x 2.

100-200K for the degree that used to cost under 30K not that long ago, and another 100-150K+ for ratings that not that long ago cost 20-30K. Paid into a third party system that has shown what it does to prices when more money is thrown at it by interests that never look behind the curtain.

Soon it will be way over a quarter million to produce a new hire regional FO, and no one asked how TF we got to that point, when not that long ago we had more than enough GA and training infrastructure to produce the same number of pilots at a small fraction of the cost.

But when you're busy lighting billions on fire looking through a drinking straw at next quarter's results then who cares because as Seinfeld says, "that's tomorrow guy's problem".

Originally Posted by Mesabah (Post 2636637)

I've been sounding the alarm on the University debt scam for years, the GDP hit when the bubble finally bursts will certainly be classified as a depression.

Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 2636639)

Sad thing is that no one even questions it. Not parents, not corporations effected by it, and certainly not the legislature. We just keep throwing more scam money at it like 529's and grants etc which makes it worse and insures its inevitable collapse will be even more painful. The whole thing exists as a romantic concept outside of reality.

Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 2636604)

I wonder how much this will cost them per pilot?

All this appears to be is panic mode money throwing money at Big Ed x 2.

100-200K for the degree that used to cost under 30K not that long ago, and another 100-150K+ for ratings that not that long ago cost 20-30K. Paid into a third party system that has shown what it does to prices when more money is thrown at it by interests that never look behind the curtain.

Soon it will be way over a quarter million to produce a new hire regional FO, and no one asked how TF we got to that point, when not that long ago we had more than enough GA and training infrastructure to produce the same number of pilots at a small fraction of the cost.

But when you're busy lighting billions on fire looking through a drinking straw at next quarter's results then who cares because as Seinfeld says, "that's tomorrow guy's problem".

Originally Posted by Hawaii50 (Post 2636634)

I hate to rain on the parade but I've had concerns recommending the career to my kids mainly because technology is moving so fast I'm not sure how long aircraft will have 2 or more pilots. Anyone else have these concerns or am I out to lunch?

Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 2636604)

I wonder how much this will cost them per pilot?
All this appears to be is panic mode money throwing money at Big Ed x

Originally Posted by Mesabah (Post 2636567)

We have over a thousand pilots here waiting for the DGI, a lot of them are children of current Delta pilots. These propel pilots just got slotted in ahead of a lot of them.



There is no way we can afford to lose hundreds of FO's all at once, along with over 150 DGI pilots/year.

Originally Posted by 3 green (Post 2636534)

The sole purpose of this program is to staff the regionals IMO..Why would any Delta pilot volunteer as a mentor in order to keep DCI around?