New Hire Class Drops
01-06-2023 | 05:59 AM
#3551
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Facebook pages indicate that Feb21 class is early to mid October cjo’s. If you or your friend can, there is a FB page “Delta Pilot New Hire” with people who always post their cjos and class dates
01-06-2023 | 10:24 AM
#3553
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Joined: Apr 2021
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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.
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.
That’s a lot of good info for me, Really appreciate the insight!
01-07-2023 | 09:17 AM
#3555
Can’t find crew pickup
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01-08-2023 | 07:11 AM
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Bid the things that will screw you last. There's no 220 in ATL so if you wanna be ATL based, 220 is your last preference. First preference is every ATL offering, second tier is every plane that ATL has but NYC based so you can base swap on the next AE (usually couple months). Last tier is stuff that doesn't exist in your desired base. You can bid for a new category after only a 1-year seat lock in that case (remaining seat lock gets added to your new seat lock).
01-08-2023 | 08:27 AM
#3558
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Joined: Dec 2006
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From: 737 FO
Bid the things that will screw you last. There's no 220 in ATL so if you wanna be ATL based, 220 is your last preference. First preference is every ATL offering, second tier is every plane that ATL has but NYC based so you can base swap on the next AE (usually couple months). Last tier is stuff that doesn't exist in your desired base. You can bid for a new category after only a 1-year seat lock in that case (remaining seat lock gets added to your new seat lock).
01-08-2023 | 09:16 AM
#3559
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Joined: Oct 2013
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From: 7ERA
Bid the things that will screw you last. There's no 220 in ATL so if you wanna be ATL based, 220 is your last preference. First preference is every ATL offering, second tier is every plane that ATL has but NYC based so you can base swap on the next AE (usually couple months). Last tier is stuff that doesn't exist in your desired base. You can bid for a new category after only a 1-year seat lock in that case (remaining seat lock gets added to your new seat lock).
Option 2 and Option 3 would both allow for you to bid a different piece of equipment requiring qualification training to get to ATL after 12 months IF you can't hold your current equipment there and have bid it without conditions if it exists.
01-08-2023 | 09:26 AM
#3560
Roll’n Thunder
Joined: Oct 2009
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From: Pilot
This is a very important distinction that is more in play now that new hires have been getting WB awards. Normally on NB fleets you can hold your plane in any base well before a year. However, a NYC 330B may not be able to hold ATL 330B after 12 months, but that pilot can break their new hire lock after 12 months and be awarded any other fleet in ATL they can hold. Just note that whatever NH lock that is left will be added on to the new 24 month lock for changing fleets.
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