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tom14cat14 01-17-2020 08:51 AM


Originally Posted by RJ4LIFE (Post 2958738)
There's a reason it's the most senior base at DL. I don't just mean appealing to live there (because it sounds like cold isn't your thing) but it's a great commuter base because its centrally located, has reasonable hotel prices, and doesn't go into a ground stop every other day.


Not to mention most of the base actually lives in the area vs NYC very few do.

m3113n1a1 01-17-2020 08:55 AM


Originally Posted by RJ4LIFE (Post 2958738)
There's a reason it's the most senior base at DL. I don't just mean appealing to live there (because it sounds like cold isn't your thing) but it's a great commuter base because its centrally located, has reasonable hotel prices, and doesn't go into a ground stop every other day.

I was just messing with you :D Hope MSP sees some growth soon!

cni187 01-17-2020 09:25 AM


Originally Posted by Schwanker (Post 2958690)
It depends on the base. Very underwhelming in MSP.

330 Nothing
7ER Shrinkage
73N Shrinkage
320 Nothing
717 Few tokens to offset the shrinkage

Forget MSP look at LA! 30 more Capt positions on the 320!

Xray678 01-17-2020 09:25 AM

Wide body postings don’t even keep up with retirements.

sailingfun 01-17-2020 09:38 AM


Originally Posted by Xray678 (Post 2958763)
Wide body postings don’t even keep up with retirements.

We see this same post constantly. If it were anywhere close to true we would have zero widebody pilots at Delta. This bid for the most part is covering flying from now until the end of summer. Another bid will be posted in a few months. You still have widebody pilots being trained and converted from prior bids. We probably have about 150 widebody Captains retiring between now and the end of Aug. The total count of widebody CA positions is increasing and that increase will really kick into gear with this a subsequent bids. In the last 10 months the company has posted or awarded 380 CA positions on 764-400 or larger equipment.

tunes 01-17-2020 09:50 AM


Originally Posted by Trip7 (Post 2958704)
The results of this bid will be pretty interesting. Especially with such a large amount of Widebody Capt positions. I see significant movement and some shockingly junior domestic Captain and Widebody FO positions.

Could NYC7ERA hit 2014 hires? Will the iron wall of seniority on the 73 and 320 in ATL finally fall? Will systemwide junior Captain fall below 2 years again? Interesting times. More plot twists in store for the rest of the year with BOS320, NYC777(or more ATL777), SLC330 and LAX350 all on the table.

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while i think this is a very positive AE for actual movement on this AE, i'd take all the 'possibilities' with a grain of salt....they claimed LAX 220 and look how that turned out..

Trip7 01-17-2020 10:02 AM


Originally Posted by tunes (Post 2958781)
while i think this is a very positive AE for actual movement on this AE, i'd take all the 'possibilities' with a grain of salt....they claimed LAX 220 and look how that turned out..

I agree. I would not be surprised if Network changes their mind to ATL350

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Funk 01-17-2020 10:18 AM


Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 2958711)
I bet there’s gonna be 2 pages of bypasses alone.

Big if true

Flying Monkey 01-17-2020 10:25 AM


Originally Posted by Abouttime2fish (Post 2958717)
What’s the over-under on number of M88 A backfills? I’m thinking 50.


Possibly zero. I think it was mentioned in the video that as much as possible they will delay moving A’s off so as not to back fill.

Edit.....I just read the AE memo, so there’s that.

Funk 01-17-2020 10:31 AM


Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 2958771)
We see this same post constantly. If it were anywhere close to true we would have zero widebody pilots at Delta. This bid for the most part is covering flying from now until the end of summer. Another bid will be posted in a few months. You still have widebody pilots being trained and converted from prior bids. We probably have about 150 widebody Captains retiring between now and the end of Aug. The total count of widebody CA positions is increasing and that increase will really kick into gear with this a subsequent bids. In the last 10 months the company has posted or awarded 380 CA positions on 764-400 or larger equipment.

Doesn’t 426 CA positions represent ~5% of the total captain positions? (Disclaimer, I left my shoes on to do the math). That seems like a ton of movement if that really is 1/20th of the A positions.


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