Delta is pulling 12 additional 757's out of the desert for the spring/ summer flying in 16. These are not the NBA birds.

Is this a true rumor or another more 777's type rumor?:confused:

Obviously your source can't be named or you would have. Nice to hear but not fact until there is confirmation. Growth or replacement? I hope you are right but I am trying to surmise the motive. It makes me go Hmm. 737s are "cancelled" and 757s are brought back. Win, win?

Awesome news! Hope it's locked in. On another note, what about killing the TA thread and putting everything here again? There is no TA at the moment and that's really just a ****ing contest.

I'm for that also. I'd rather just have this thread.

Please No! Leave the ****ing contest there. Don't pollute this thread with the vitriol. There will be another TA eventually and we will need the TA thread then.

Bidding Strategy help-

Going through training on the 7ERB NYC, was told to shadow bid. I watched the Youtube video and read the gouge, but there really is not much there. I understand it pays the higher of what I can hold or OE trips. Question is, I finish training the first week of November, should I try and bid trips and reserve in the first couple of weeks of Nov. and try and bid days off towards the end? Any help would be appreciated.

Good point, now that you put it that way. It'd be nice to just come here to see what's going on but I guess this would just become the battle ground that the TA thread is now.

FWIW, you will get paid training salary until the day you are signed off of IOE. You will be paid flight pay for TOE trips and any other line trips or prorated reserve pay for the remainder of that month. Anything you bid until completion of TOE will get CNX'ed (and placed in the open time pot).

Also, line bids or reserve bids are for the entire bid period. There is no mixing reserve and regular line schedules within a bid period.

I heard 7ER OE still has a 6 week break between rating ride and first IOE (can anyone confirm?). IOE and TOE should be complete within a month or less...once you finally get started. For you, NOV will likely be just practice for learning the mechanics of bidding. You won't see a single rotation on your award. Dec may be the same...though you might consider bidding reserve days/regular trips to align with any Christmas desired time off.

Confirmed. I'm waiting for mine right now and I've been off for a couple of weeks and I still haven't heard anything. They're hoping to be close to caught up by mid November. But as of now it's still around 6 weeks.