Don't work at SWA then. You'd be even MORE miserable.

You mean work rules that haven't even kicked in yet? Do you have sensible numbers that prove your claim? Again, don't go to SWA as they're more productive then us.

You mean their 17 airplanes of growth they announced today? Have you seen what's happening to AF? Have you seen how they're shrinking, and having some of their flying farmed to a low cost subsidiary? Perhaps we should joint OneWorld who just welcomed Qatar into their family?

How so? They're are thousands of RJ drivers out there who are more then qualified. Now the RJ operators? They're likely in trouble WRT to replacing attrition.

Grow? I certainly didn't think it would grow post merger. Not in the first 5-7 years. After that? Who knows? We could merge again.

 

So I got an email from a hiring site and it lists Delta as hiring for the MD. Is this really happening? From some of the posts I thought it might be another year or so for hiring to start. Anyone have the Deets!

 

You're not going to sit there and tell me that every RJ pilot with enough hours and PIC to be competitive will be qualified to work here.

And it would be supremely arrogant to think that every RJ pilot that is "Delta" qualified will even want to work here, with everyone under the sun hiring.

I had a chance to go to SWA, and turned it down. I don't want to be anywhere else. But dammit, we've got to improve our situation in an attempt make this a worthwhile career. If we continue down the road of rolling over to DALPA/management without using some common sense, this place could get real ugly over the next 30 years. Surely even you can admit that we're going to get fleeced with many aspects of this contract, especially productivity giveaways, and it's not even fully in place. Let's not do that again.

Yes, I'll be "that guy" to play richard cranium, as roadkill said. And no, I don't go on about it for the whole trip. I throttle back by leg 9.

 

Not sure what you're talking about but considering that:

No hiring will occur until after flows have been given notice and that has NOT happened yet and...

Our leadership at all levels has JUST said no hiring at this time and...

Even when (if?) we (DAL) do hire again it wouldn't be advertised specifically for one fleet type anyway (not to mention that new hire classes in 07, 08 and 2010 have had some degree of a choice of aircraft in almost every single class not including the classes that all went to the ER)...

All lead me to believe that whatever you read from whomever you read it was completely made up. It could end up being true but only by pure coinsidence, and odds are its simply made up at this time.

Dems da deets.

 

Which site? Do you have a link? I have not heard a peep from the Manager of Pilot Selection at Delta. I think the earliest we will be hiring is late 2013 unless Network increases the block hours for next year.

 

Not sure if I'm allowed to mention the site but its Free Pilot Jobs, Pilot Employment, Pilot Hiring
Second job listed and lists Delta as employer

 

How come the bids arent out for Nov?

 

"No money in posting the bid results!"

 

Try the ignore feature. All the idiots have disappeared from my pages. PD is no exception.

 

And yes... I forgot to bid. I have been watching the balloon fiesta in ABQ all week. And I highly recommend this if you have never done it. The shapes balloons are awesome, and everybody is really really nice. You can walk around the balloons when they are inflating, and all the crews have been more than willing to stop and spend a few minutes with us. So hopefully flying over Thanksgiving will have been worth it.