I'm pretty sure Amelia Earhart has a degree from Purdue University. Chuck Yeager probably would have been an astronaut if he had further education. Northwest did not require a degree, but in the last round of hiring every single pilot that was hired had one. The competitive minimums at Compass were a lot lower than Northwest. I'm okay with the Compass pilots flowing. I do get tired of them bragging on here about how they went through just as tough of a interview process (they didn't). It is what it is. When this pilot shortage hits, there are only two ways to get more pilots. One is to lower the standards, the other is to raise the compensation. I already work at mainline. Obviously I want the pay raised. The pilots at Pinnacle without a college degree obviously want the standards lowered so they can move on using their preferential interview that they bought with an industry bottom contract.

 

Ok I've seen two things on here now indicating there was some issue at LGA with SWA... I don't have TV where I am, just internet, and L&G is my preferred newsfeed anyways! Can someone who has been watching this post a bit more info? Thx

 

Nose gear collapse on landing last night. Aircraft evacuated. A few minor injuries and dead kittens, but all and everyone was ok.
Shutdown lga yesterday, but it's up and running today.

In related LGA news....Company approval to further reduce the size of the pilot crew room has been approved by the board.

 

Anyone have some cheap airport commuter hotels near MSP with transportation
thanks

 

Have there been issues - aside from the guy who was fired - with Compass pilots who flowed in 2010? This was a concern for those of us at Compass who didn't flow last time. I think CPZ ALPA even did a little damage control ahead of time; basically putting out the message "don't eff this up for the rest of us". I'm sure something similar will go out this time.

For what it's worth I was interviewed by two retired NWA pilots and a Compass HR person in 2007. At that time the interview included a B727 sim evaluation which didn't seem particularly relevant to the Embraer but I digress...

The interview changed after the merger. I have no clue what it is like now. Not that it matters.

I get the impression that the majority of Compass pilots just feel fortunate to be in a position to go to Delta. There are a few who feel the need to justify their good fortune by defending the Compass interview process on public forums. There also seem to be a few Delta guys (and non Delta guys who want to be Delta guys) who don't care for the flow agreement and want to denigrate Compass pilots. Both groups are ****ing in the wind. The agreement is in place.

 

Not true. I have been called for a GS and had it cnx on the way to the airport. I was pay protected for the entire trip. However it is at straight pay not at double pay.

Good deal if you can get it.

 

Tony Weiner is having a hard day.

 

La Quinta on Nicollette Ave. $50 out the door. Internet, shuttles laundry and. Free breakfast.

 

[QUOTE=hockeypilot44;1450215]I'm pretty sure Amelia Earhart has a degree from Purdue University. . . . . QUOTE]

She began junior college at Ogontz School in Rydal, Pennsylvania but did not complete her program.[

By 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College but changed her mind and enrolled at Columbia University, enrolling in a course in medical studies among other programs.[37] She quit a year later to be with her parents who had reunited in California.

she returned for several months to Columbia University but was forced to abandon her studies and any further plans for enrolling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology because her mother could no longer afford the tuition fees and associated costs. Soon after, she found employment first as a teacher, then as a social worker in 1925 at Denison House, living in Medford, Massachusetts.[45]

Earhart joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and as a technical advisor to the Department of Aeronautics

The Purdue University Amelia Earhart Scholarship, first awarded in 1940, is based on academic merit and leadership and is open to juniors and seniors enrolled in any school at the West Lafayette campus. After being discontinued in the 1970s, a donor resurrected the award in 1999.

Amelia Earhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

I'm not convinced this shortage will reach Delta. How many well qualified guys (degree(s), lots of TPIC, clean record, etc) are currently waiting for a call? 5,000? Maybe even 10,000? And probably half or more have strong internal recommendations. Unfortunately, this flow is forcing you to gobble up the entire bell curve when you could be hand selecting from the right hand side.

As an off the street wannabe, I know I'm biased. I've also never flown for the regionals. But I have to think that a regional interview using Delta's format is NOT the same as a Delta interview.