SS, 944 & HiR,
I got the call as well - see you on the 3rd!

(Interviewed 7/30, OK to train email 8/15)

Danimal

Okay. Started today and it was awesome. Breakdown as follows:
16 76/75 ATL Domestic
10 76ER JFK
5 73NG NYC.
Those are the no kidding numbers. By the way There are now 7001 pilots at work for Delta with only 200 on furlough!

Wow, interesting. Those on the 76/75 in ATL will be junior for a long time, won't they?

those that stay...yes. I bet a large number of new hires on the 767 and 7ER bail off on the next bid and go back to the 73N or 88.

Reserve sucks. Especially reserve in NYC.

I imagine short call reserve would suck, but how about regular reserve? Isn't domestic a 12 hour show to the gate and international is 24 hours. I live 3.5 hours away from JFK (traffic permitting), so I would hope a 12 or 24 hour response wouldn't be so bad...or at least I hope. Heck, I'm just hoping to get hired!

Gladioslave,

How fast did the 76ERs go?

They went junior on the AE, FWIW.

"How fast did the 7ER's go?"

Top half of the class was 767 and then only two 7ER's.

Reserve in ATL is a piece of cake... I've sat 2 months on the ATL767 as bottom guy. I credited 110ish hours in July and it's going to be in the upper 80's this month. As a DTW commuter, I've only had to get one hotel. That was because of an early sign-in a couple weeks ago.

One hotel in two months as plug on reserve, not a single short call, and I've known about all my trips greater than 20 hours in advance... I call that not too bad.

the problem is you can't bid long or short call. You are on reserve. You are on long call unless they assign you a short call. I forget the number, but they can assign you eight short calls a month. The problem in an international category is that short call lasts 24 hours. So, you get short call starting at noon on Monday....you are on short call till noon on Tuesday. That counts as one short call. Then if you don't fly, they can assign you another short call at noon on Wendsday. You see where I am going? You can end up on short call, having to be relatively close by, for almost the entire month.

If you live in the NYC area, great. You just got a job being paid to sit at home waiting to go fly. If you don't live in NYC, you just got a job sitting in a crappy crash pad up to 16 days a month.

There is a reason none of the pilots who are already here want to be on reserve on the ER in NYC.

Having said that, I started out on the panel of the 727. I'd have given anything to fly the ER as a new hire.