Or stay senior in a category, bid it and fly it. As you can see, becoming a contract wonk has it's advantages. But it seems like a lot of work.

There's no sport in that!

My post was addressed to new-hires (although I didn't imply it as much as I perhaps should have.)

In any event, it benefits every pilot to know that document.

Even as a very senior pilot in category very good deals often come up in open time. Especially CS created rotations. You can spend less than 5 minutes a day looking or end up at times working two or 3 days more and perhaps getting less pay. To each his own.

And then learn about the Full Service Bank

Delta 401K
 

Hi All-
Can the pilots have a company other than Fidelity and Financial Engines manage the 401K savings plan? The pilots can manage it themselves through the brokerage link, correct? Thanks

For the last question yes. You can open the Brokerage Link account and then invest in basically anything you want.

I believe there is an option to choose your own advisor and then give them access to your account, but I don't know much about it.

Financial Engines is expensive for what they do. If you have zero interest/knowledge they are better than nothing, but if you would rather have your $ compound for you rather than enrich Financial Engines, you can easily mirror what they would be doing for you and just buy index funds in the same proportion.

Yes. I have a financial planner that manages my account. There are some paperwork hops to jump through but you can use a person of your choice. Some guys are great at doing there own investing, me not so much. I am glad to have an outside person taking care of it for me.

I didn’t want to start a whole new thread to ask a simple question. Looks like I will be trying to Jumpseat on Horizon from ALW-SEA on Nov. 19. The last time I jumpseated on Alaska/Horizon I just checked in at the gate. Is that still the way to do it? Or do I need to use some other avenue now? Thanks for any answers!

Denny

They have a service center in the C concourse. I usually go there, get listed, and then check the monitor at the gate to make sure my listing is active. Never had any issues. Have fun in the town so nice they named it twice!