tcco94

If you want more you can PM me. Been on fleet over a year now. Winter is more Hawaii because it’s heavy metal. HNL-Tokyo on schedule for March. Tahiti seems to be seasonal and ends in March (very senior but I’ve gotten one off swap boards). A LOT of b-line schedules for augmented Hawaii (JFK/MSP/DTW to HNL). A lot of SLC-Hawaii (HNL/OGG swap from 330s to 76’s)

Lot of charter and transcons. Some really crap trips for junior people. Overall it’s a great base and it’s growing. We went from 120 to projected 180+. Should stay about the same but we will see on this AE tomorrow. I think you can expect really good flying in winter with a lot of Hawaii and augmented ops. Summer is going to be interesting when OGG/KOA go back to neos. There will still be a bit of Hawaii in HNL flying but I wouldn’t expect it to go junior, that’s all I bid. Great 3 day Latin America trips too. Summer time we get some Atlantic trips or B’s do at least. But really hit or miss there. Don’t expect much of it and it’s never made its way past 50% line anyways. So don’t plan on any europes.

ER fleet isn’t really going anywhere or shrinking anytime soon and charter flying with heavy transcons will still be around a while. So bud with a little caution but only if you plan on being on the fleet 4-5+ years anyways. In the short term 2-3 years it’s not going away especially with amount of west coast flying required with SEA closing down.

sometimes in rare cases that 330 or 765 becomes overwhelmed they put west coast international back on ERs. Just a couple months ago we did SEA-LHR for about 6 weeks. I wouldn’t plan on any of that either but the flexibility for company seems to help. Don’t take Bob’s word for much but they said no plans of LAX330. They are focused on SLC.

Gooner

Not on the ER, but during the last base meeting the plan is to keep the 350 as the long term LAX WB and the 330 is not currently in the plans for LAX, maybe this week’s plan is different but with SLC and SEA so close I could absolutely see the 330 never coming to LAX.

Speaking to the 320 in LAX, yes a lot of red eyes again. When the plane launched in LAX there were a lot of red eyes, then it actually went to zero red eyes for over 2 years. Now they are all back. So the moral of the story is Delta has no idea how they want categories to fly. As a west coast resident I can say the red eyes aren’t the worst part of the trip, you are usually pulling into the hotel at about 0330 body clock time, makes falling asleep easy and 6-8 hours pretty achievable. Generally 15-18 hours on the second layover. The crap part of the trip is the last 2 days of 7-9 hour block times to get back to the west coast and make up the credit in the trip. Pretty rare to do more than 2 legs and the NEO is giving us more long legs which results in longer layovers of late. I know the eastern bases do more legs than we do out west, can’t really speak to SEA as it’s still a growing new category.

BlueCondor

Does anybody know the difference in flying, seniority growth and QOL between 7ER ATL and JFK?

tcco94

Do not go to ATL. Some of worst flying in the company. NYC has great growth and in summer you’ll be all over Europe.

nene

Anything NYC is 50% junior to what it is in Atl. Sorta a reward for living or commuting to nyc.

More overall international on 7er nyc and not much on Atl 7er so goes very senior in Atl.

QOL is in eye of the beholder. If you can’t drive to nyc then can be a be&)#;tch to get to sometimes. Some just enjoy the seniority bump and plan on spending more days on the road. Others cant stand an overnight that isn’t on Compamy dime.

Sorta like asking “what’s better? Protestants or Methodists?” You’ll get as many different answers as people because everyone’s situation so completely different.

Lawn Darticus

What’s the fleet distribution for the 1/2/23 Indoc class?

Urine Trouble

See post #3492

Lawn Darticus

Apologies, what I meant to ask was how many in each category awarded.

enginediver

Just received the 21 Feb start email.

HandFlyorDie

Interview date? Have a friend hired early Nov hoping he gets in around March.