It's good to see delta buying more commuter friendly airplanes.


Delta buys more Airbus jets | www.ajc.com

I've heard the new A321's will only have one cockpit jumpseat. Hope we get the two.

No. At best it will help for a short while. Once the other Majors institute a similar program we will be right back were we started. Kind of like using an S2 to go first and then everyone else uses an S2 also.

Scoop

I asked Jim Graham this at a base meeting and he said their would be 2 jumpseats.

Good deal, thanks.

Delta doesn't require a sim ride during the interview.

Will Endeavor?

If not...yikes!

Yikes? Again, why? UPS had a "sim" when I interviewed there a hundred years ago, and I guarantee you it didn't tell squat about my flying abilities. They still have to pass a checkride somewhere before they are sitting in front of little pink bodies. Ya'll are making a mountain out of a dust bunny.

This is so true!

Ironically that's a microcosm of the regional industry itself anyway.

There never was anything special about the 50, 70 or even 90 seat RJ's to justify their order books. Their biggest use was to poach other trunk carrier networks with low segment cost hub raiding with potential revenue buffing frequency. They were always high seat costs, but increased revenue from employing this model supposedly made up for it, so everyone ordered a billion of them without a second thought and things seemed great…

…right up until every one else started doing the same thing. Then everyone was eating high seat costs, clogging up gates and slots, and being poached by every one else and simultaneously realized they were sitting on way too much inventory of a way too inferior product.

Funny thing is, this has a very good chance of collapsing Pinnacle from an operational standpoint. Attrition will likely increase, and even the new preferred class of "specially vetted" new hires will also start bailing well prior to their 5 year point.

The numerous billion dollar miscalculations by legacy managements in the regional sector continue unabated. You would think the several billion DL has lost on that pathetic experiment would result in corrective thinking. Sadly, learning has not yet occured.

No. Not really.

Delta is one of few if the only major not requiring one. SWA you need the type in lieu of.

Sim ride tells a lot.

So T, what you are saying is Delta should take a candidate all the way through expensive training, consuming valuable resources that we a short of, and then determine whether they have the skills or not?

Yeah. They have always done it this way. Doesn't mean it is efficient or the best practice.

fNWA, you all did sims, correct?