Originally Posted by Gone Flying (Post 3336737)

bump. This was posted over on the UAL forum about their bid that just closed in the past few days

“1,241 total bids not filled
133 unfilled CAPTAIN bids in LAX, SFO, DCA, EWR.
170 unfilled 777/787 FO in SFO, DCA, EWR
2 year Captains in DEN (used to be 2 years just to get FO in Denver)

Another bid supposed to be out in January or February.
New hires to likely be awarded 787/777 FO in new hire training.
Everyone with 500 hours on property and off probation can hold Captain.”

Not saying things are not good here at DL by any stretch but WOW!

if we are supposed to hire 4,000 pilots in the next 2-3 years I think it might only be a matter of time before crazy things like this start happening here.

crazy world

Originally Posted by Gone Flying (Post 3336737)

bump.

This was posted over on the UAL forum about their bid that just closed in the past few days

“1,241 total bids not filled
133 unfilled CAPTAIN bids in LAX, SFO, DCA, EWR.
170 unfilled 777/787 FO in SFO, DCA, EWR
2 year Captains in DEN (used to be 2 years just to get FO in Denver)

Another bid supposed to be out in January or February.
New hires to likely be awarded 787/777 FO in new hire training.
Everyone with 500 hours on property and off probation can hold Captain.”

Not saying things are not good here at DL by any stretch but WOW!

if we are supposed to hire 4,000 pilots in the next 2-3 years I think it might only be a matter of time before crazy things like this start happening here.

crazy world

Originally Posted by Gone Flying (Post 3336737)

This was posted over on the UAL forum about their bid that just closed in the past few days
Another bid supposed to be out in January or February.

Originally Posted by Gunfighter (Post 3336758)

This thread started with unfilled CA vacancies on a November bid. Then another bid in Dec, followed by Jan/Feb. I wonder what it's like where you have multiple seat bids throughout the year?

Originally Posted by crewdawg (Post 3336742)

Ya man, combined with FDX recent bid, it's a nutty world right now. For UAL, expensive cost of living bases, combined with their reserve rules are likely what's driving the WB FO spots being left open. Either way, good for our UAL friends!

Originally Posted by Gone Flying (Post 3336737)

bump.

This was posted over on the UAL forum about their bid that just closed in the past few days

“1,241 total bids not filled
133 unfilled CAPTAIN bids in LAX, SFO, DCA, EWR.
170 unfilled 777/787 FO in SFO, DCA, EWR
2 year Captains in DEN (used to be 2 years just to get FO in Denver)

Another bid supposed to be out in January or February.
New hires to likely be awarded 787/777 FO in new hire training.
Everyone with 500 hours on property and off probation can hold Captain.”

Not saying things are not good here at DL by any stretch but WOW!

if we are supposed to hire 4,000 pilots in the next 2-3 years I think it might only be a matter of time before crazy things like this start happening here.

crazy world

Originally Posted by DrunkIrishman (Post 3337032)

I bet their junior FOs wouldn’t have the audacity to call in fatigued for an ATL-JAX trip either!

Originally Posted by Falcon20 (Post 3337135)

I hope this was snarky humor. Hard to tell in text format.

Originally Posted by DWC CAP10 USAF (Post 3337138)

He was alluding to the DL ATL ER Capitan that blasted his FO for calling out fatigued mid rotation last week.

Capt had just driven to work to start his 4 day IA.

FO was on day 3 of 4, had already flown one leg (Midwest to West Coast), pushed, gate returned, push again, flew Transcon West Coast to ATL, then had the audacity to throw in the towel before the ATL-JAX leg which was now going to land after midnight.....the nerve!

Originally Posted by zippinbye (Post 3324510)

May I ask what approx. DOH hire applies wide body captain (real wide body like 787/777)? Just curious if the vacant NB captain bids correlate in any fashion to juniority on the WB side of the house.

Over here, the lamest wide body trip beats typical domestic. So if you are the recipient of what's handed out to reserves, the QOL is pretty decent once you are out flying. Bottom line is that a junior wide body pilot is not living in misery once flying assignments are made.