#5 in his category. Nice!

 

Two quick bidding questions:

1. If young are scheduled for AE training and you awarded the same aircraft at another base on a subsequent AE I assume you will stick with your initial training and just lateral over - sound right?

2. Since AEs are strictly seniority based what are the advantages of checking the box that says yes I am willing to liquidate my vacation?

Thanks Scoop

 

It's going to be huge! LAX will be so big and we're all going to live in Orange Tree City just southwest of Torrance where all the kids drive ski boats or surf to school and I hear the training center is moving to the old Western parking structure on Century Blvd.

 

The 777 LAX base isn't the greatest of news though because it sounds like its reallocation and not growth. Couple that with a very significant reduction in block hours from the vanishing DH's and that's a lot of time (and some jobs) taken out of the system. There's probably some existing 777 pilots that live in SoCal and get paid to commute, or better: paid to commute while staying at home. A lot of that is going away with this mini base if/when it happens.

I guess it was inevitable though, and hopefully the churn created with more new categories makes up for the loss of block hours, at least for a little while.

 

When using the 'count pilots holding a preference for a specific category' function on icrew, will it count pilots who are already in that category but just didn't change their bid?

 

[QUOTE=forgot to bid;1833284]I think the west coast bases get too much love and attention. More flying should be in atlanta.















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THIS!!! ALPA sucks

 

Like at worst its a 180 hour month. Could be easily close to 300.

just a beautiful thing really.

 

Mike-
The way you phrased your question it sounds like you might not be aware that ALL standing preferences are deleted from the system every time you receive an award.
Be aware of that.

But also-
There ARE certain circumstances where a pilot would include his current category in his list of preferences. That's PhD level bidding though. I would not advise a new hire to do that until you are very confident that you are very familiar with the percentage system and all the bidding strategies available using the percentage qualifiers.

Finally-
Most guys will tell you that the iCrew capability to view pilots with preferences for certain categories can be very misleading and is almost useless. There are many reasons for that. ie=> It doesn't factor in the percentage qualifiers or whether a pilot has throwaway bids in the system as his first three choices, etc. etc. etc.

Bid what you want and want what you bid. You will only end up screwing yourself if you try to bid based on the numbers from that page in iCrew.

 

For reference, I just got the Delta CJO on Tuesday - similar career totals (yours are higher), but I was coming off a 2-year non-flying staff gig. DAL's resume-scoring heuristic seems to be aggregate in nature - you'll be a Tier 1, 2, or 3 based on their total-person assessment of you. There might be a lower limit for recency, but very high likelihood that you're above it, and your grand totals should make up for it anyway. At the interview just be prepared to explain how you arrived at your numbers - I found that I was vastly overprepared for that portion, all they wanted was a copy of my SARMS summary and a quick verification that day + night = total. Use caution in the conversion from Mil to PIC but don't let it hold you up. I was a Herk & T1 guy, happy to share the spreadsheet-calculator I used.

 

I find it interesting that the ER B to A ratio is sooooo far out of whack.

There are 285 ER B spots posted and only 18 A's. I get that the fleet needs more FO's overall due to augmented legs, but that seems a little excessive to be the explanation.

Any ideas? Buzz, Rocky, Roadkill any of you guys bidding A out west?

I agree with FTB, bring the flying back to ATL!

Seriously, happy for the out-west guys. Nice to see some movement for you finally.