will we have time to make schedule changes for January before the world ends on Friday?

 

About 20% of the working pilots in the USA made it through the Delta vetting process, I would hardly classify that as a rare breed. Trust me, if Delta waits to long to hire, they will be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

 

I know us that hang out here on APC are tough to buy for, so here's an idea to pass along to the Missus (or Missuses if you're SLC based). Or, if you're Herman, maybe APW might like it, I didn't see it on her list but sometimes the best presents aren't on the list.



I know it's a little retro, but then again, so is Terminal 3.

 

We'll get to you eventually don't you worry.

And how do you calculate that 20%? ALPA represents 55,000, so are you saying 20% of current ALPA pilots made it through the vetting process?

How many more tried, and failed?

 

I do have one but not the other....care to guess which one? In the infamous words of Bugs Bunny...."What a maroon!"

PS. the leather jacket is not from NWA, but an old AF thowback.

PPS. I never wanted to be a Delta pilot either, yet now I am and feel just as fortunate as I did to be a NWA pilot.

 

Delta is a very image obsessed carrier, that is what it looks for in the vetting process. I fully expect you to tell me how great you guys are. They are looking for someone who is humble around their coworkers but not humble outside of them. I'm also a former mainline employee of yours, but not a pilot, I went and made it through the 2 day vetting process just as you did.

 

i used to have a coex leather jacket, i think they took the leather off a 10’ couch to make it. it was so dang thick and heavy, my wife forbid it out of the closet. got a higher end one due to another job, that's stuck in the closet too.

are leather jackets out of style? i really liked them. but i do live in Gawga and its going to be seventy here tomorrow so you never wear them.

you know its one thing for socal not to have seasons because is California. Gawga is just pine trees. they start about 6’ from the side of the road and its all you see. 100’ tall mangy skinny trees. after nine years in this state i find it has no personality, is very warm, has ugly trees, and it has an unknown view due to those same ugly trees.

 

I'm not familiar with this.

What was your job, after the vetting process?

 

It should say image, not imagine, typo. To give you an example, I was flying CRJ 900's around the system when we were painting the 900's in Delta colors. This was so Delta had Delta paint on certain airplanes on certain routes to show off the new 900 paint jobs. I had 4 days that typically looked like this: Ferry a Delta colored plane from DTW - SLC, fly 1 revenue leg SLC-BOI, Ferry BOI - JFK. Fly JFK - BOS, ferry BOS - MEM, pick up another Delta color airplane, ferry MEM - SLC, Pick up NWA colored airplane in SLC, ferry SLC - DTW. Delta paid millions those months to show off our 900's painted in Delta colors. Nobody even cared what color the plane was painted in except DAL management.


I was in customer service through college, then I was in tech ops mgt after college, got laid off during the bankruptcy in 2005, then got hired at Mesaba as a pilot.

 

My college marketing professor would be very proud. He used to say "he, who doesn't want to pay for brand recognition, will pay twice!"
Shouldn't every company do that?

P.S. I am glad the times of former FA's running network and putting 777's on Florida turns are gone. Nothing to do with paint, but it's good to see common sense.