Iceberg

They'll just cancel flights because they don’t have aircraft and somehow it’ll still be the pilots fault.

Catflyer

Been on NYC 765B past four year it is a great jet for QOL, home and on the road and good money, from 90-63% and than back down to about 69%. Held Xmas off every year, summer vacation, normally fly line may-sep/oct and res through the winter averaging one trip a month a maybe two SC is res. Summer average about 1-2 GS a month. Fleet goes from pure international for a few years to a mix of domestics, which swings the commute-able trips from 100% to a mix, still way better than any NB a or b IMO.

Past year been crazy, flew less than 50 hr in 2020, to since Jan averaging 3 -4 GS a month, mostly international.

fleet has limited destination, about five to six different at a locations at a time, for years we had some of the best, NCE, PRG, DUB, FCO, VCE, MAD, FRA and BRU, with a mix of GRU, ACC, RIO, Hawaii but also lax SFO, than with new seats the future is mostly London, from jfk, sea, dtw, Msp and maybe Portland, with Zurich, BRU and maybe FRA. Until the 330 get upgrade and the -400 because the old jet again.

also, since it’s a small fleet we all kind of know each other, which is nice because its kind of like being in our own small airline inside of airline, great guys.

not planning on leaving, take hopefully a big push up in seniority, but top 40-50% of the group are mostly likely camping out until retirement just FYI.

PilotBases

765 is my dream, trying to decide whether to do ER in the meantime or hang tight. Hard to tell, make the move and commit to a freeze, but then miss out on bidding it for 24+ months if it becomes feasible at my #. If we scrape another widebody order by then it’ll shake it up too.

Big E 757

If you go to the ER first, I think you only have a 9 month freeze, which is stupid anyway, because the 400 is just a differences training. The 400 training is the 7ER training, plus differences, so the fact that there is a freeze at all doesn’t make sense.

Gunfighter

I think the problem was a 24 month freeze on the ER before getting a shot at 765. Isn’t a freeze based on the training you have already received, not what you are signing up for?

PilotBases

That is correct. The gamble is freezing myself off of what I’d prefer long term, to freeze myself on a fleet that’s more senior than what I’m on, and it’s likely to shrink over time. Hmmm decisions.

DeltaboundRedux

The weird thing is that I don't think Delta ever cancels flights.

Looking at the flightaware "cancellations" page, Delta's numbers are conspicuously absent for "tomorrow's" cancellations, and the day-of cancellations don't show up until the afternoon.

"Delays", however, can be quite high, especially when APC threads like "Holiday X Meltdown" pop up.

Could very well just be a database numbers gathering from flightaware, which after all, is a 3-rd party free app. It does make one go "Hmmmmm" when comparing a multiple 9-10% "delay" rate to promoted stories about just how awesome the company is doing in surveys.

IDK. Be nice to think that big-D can charge a premium because of our awesomeness. But I also wonder what the true data is. Beats me.

Iceberg

Very true. Nothing beats a nice 53 hour delay. There’s some very good numbers masseuses somewhere in Atlanta.

TegridyFarms

In the accounting world one who identifies as a very good numbers masseuse is also known as committing fraud.

notEnuf

I was once rerouted to fly a 24 hour delayed flight with 0 passengers. But we did not cancel it. "Completion," I was told by dispatch. Also we had to wait on FAs to make it a legal revenue flight. Well, not so much revenue, rather negative revenue. The kicker was it was an illegal reroute and I got a little something extra about a 3 weeks later.