You might be able to hold CA there with a 3 didget seniority number if the tax law changes. FO might make it all the way down to 3000 or so!

 

Apologies. I have no idea what you just said.

 

You has to be bery bery old to drive to work.

 

Hope to be coming to Delta someday. Can anyone email me an example of a schedule for any month? Also, is there open time pay? Can you make more than what the rates listed on APC? Thanks
[email protected]

 

Dude,
This is a loaded set of questions. Schedules vary. I try to work as little as possible, but that works for my situation. I fly a different jet than 69% of the other Delta guys/gals. They fly different jets than 69% of their peers.
Some equipment pays more, some less. Some equipment gets a lot of double time pay ("Green Slips, or GS" in Delta terminology.)
Some equipment never gets that. Some pilots hawk the open time board and fill their month to FAR stoppage. Some, like me, try to help those guys by dropping trips.

Can you make more than APC listed rates? Sure. But our work paradigm is different than SWA or AS, or any other carrier I can think of. It's just different.

Best of luck,

Vinny

 

Mikey,

Not really a "typical" DAL schedule. There are typical schedules for each fleet but it is very different on various fleets.

Small NB flies multiple legs per day usually 3-4 day trips. 12-15 days per month is common.
Larger NB schedules are all over the place. Some days have 1 leg most have 2, some have 3 or even 4. An average 4 day on the 737 probably has about 6 or 7 legs. I average about 14 days a month when I fly a line but sometimes as few as 12.
International is 1 leg per day followed by long layovers. Some of these guys only work 9-10 days per month. Trips run from 3 days to 10+ day trips.

Reserve on NB you can fly your butt off. Reserve on international is a lot slower and not uncommon for guys to grow a full beard in the winter between assignments.

The huge variety of flying is definitely a plus at Delta.

Scoop

 

PBS Question:

I normally use a Default Bid.

In August I'd like to bid RES for VACA.

If I use the CURRENT BID, this will override my DEFAULT BID for AUG, correct?

 

Correct.
Bid RES to change default bid.

 

Thanks!!!!!

 

Have a question that I'm having a hard time finding an answer for. I want to pick up a trip technically after my shadow period but overlapping with my last awarded shadow rotation.

- Shadow period was July 6-13
- Shadow rotations awarded & dropped cover July 9-16
- OE trip July 9-13

Question is, if I pick up a trip during the period of July 14-16, will I get paid for it since it is after my shadow period? Or would I be working for free because it overlaps with a shadow rotation that I'm already getting paid for that day?

Thanks.