Airline Pilot Central Forums

Airline Pilot Central Forums (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/)
-   Delta (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/delta/)
-   -   Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta? (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/delta/36912-any-latest-greatest-about-delta.html)

johnso29 04-13-2010 08:06 AM


Originally Posted by TOGA LK (Post 794676)
Sure Buzz, spoken like you just received word that you get to capitalize on retirements from both pre-merger airlines. I am sorry, but the Kumbya let's make the Greatest Airline (airline with a post-BK contract, parking planes left and right, code sharing where we cant park planes) go forward with our new list may not fly so well with the 2000 hire dealing with some kid who was in high-school when he was flying the right seat of a bus making six figures. Freaking please dude, even the fDAL Captain I flew with said the list was freakin BS past 2000 hires... Buzz, I guess I am not happy with the median age (52) of my airline dropping by about 7 years and realizing zero gain from it. Did you work in Centerport before Delta?

Perhaps you'd prefer a job at Usair, or maybe UAL? Maybe you'd like to be like the NWA pilots that left in 2007 for UPS & will now be furloughed? Or perhaps you'd be better at ATA, or TWA?

Whine all you want, but we could have it a lot worse. :rolleyes:

nwaf16dude 04-13-2010 08:14 AM


Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 795054)
On a side note that EZopenboard seniority calculator is quite cool and very depressing.........

Yeah, I had the same thought...if it's accurate I'll be a 20+ year FO

Waves 04-13-2010 08:15 AM


Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 795039)
HA!

And the last 4 digits of your social?

No I'm trying to find you a good avatar. :D of course I would do this over a pm but you can't be pm-ed.

acl PM'd me. I am departing shortly, so I won't be able to respond or check settings until this eve. Thanks Forgot

acl65pilot 04-13-2010 08:18 AM

It looks to be very accurate......

For me it is flat and then about 2022 or so I go from a mid level FO to a senior ca in five years, just crazy.....

newKnow 04-13-2010 08:19 AM


Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 795054)
On a side note that EZopenboard seniority calculator is quite cool and very depressing.........

acl,

Just move the retirement age down to 60 and dream/hope everyone retires at 60. I think someone posted that they are actually going at 62.5. If that's the case, it looks like it's about 4-5 years before the earth shattering, "I can move up to the next bigger airplane," movement begins.

New K

nwaf16dude 04-13-2010 08:27 AM


Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 795070)
It looks to be very accurate......

For me it is flat and then about 2022 or so I go from a mid level FO to a senior ca in five years, just crazy.....

Yeah, that's about the same I'm seeing. Unfortunately I'll be 57-58 years old before the ramp up gets going.

Of course it's pretty damn silly to even try to predict what's going to happen between now and then.

Superpilot92 04-13-2010 08:28 AM


Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 795071)
acl,

Just move the retirement age down to 60 and dream/hope everyone retires at 60. I think someone posted that they are actually going at 62.5. If that's the case, it looks like it's about 4-5 years before the earth shattering, "I can move up to the next bigger airplane," movement begins.

New K

62.5 is the realistic avg age. The wheres waldo part shows everyones age thats retired and a good majority of them are 60. With that said for every good fellow going out at 60 you'll likely have a "fly till i die" type stay to the last possible second.

We're currently at 2.5 years since the change so we should continue to see a steady number of retirements from this point forward. We'll see

newKnow 04-13-2010 08:31 AM


Originally Posted by Superpilot92 (Post 794883)
yeah! set at 60 it showed me holding captain by the time i'm 35 :eek:

60 was a much better deal for all. When we had pensions, of course.

Superpilot92 04-13-2010 08:36 AM


Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 795078)
60 was a much better deal for all. When we had pensions, of course.

and since we dont have pensions anymore we should have no less than 18-20% in our DC plan going forward.

newKnow 04-13-2010 08:37 AM


Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 795058)
Perhaps you'd prefer a job at Usair, or maybe UAL? Maybe you'd like to be like the NWA pilots that left in 2007 for UPS & will now be furloughed? Or perhaps you'd be better at ATA, or TWA?

Whine all you want, but we could have it a lot worse. :rolleyes:

I agree. As the my favorite baseball announcer would put it,.....

"The SLI is OVAAAA!!!"

Let's move on.

Dang. I forgot about those guys who left for UPS? One was a MEM rep. They are about to get furloughed?


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 06:46 PM.


Website Copyright © 2026 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands