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Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 917477)

The inverse assignments will be flowing like egg nog.
Make sure you don't answer your phone.

Also make sure you are very careful when coming in from a trip. If you see extra people in the jetway you might want to think about putting a sweater on over your uniform shirt and slinking off with the passengers. Jetway assignments often happen around Christmas.

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Originally Posted by Jesse (Post 917376)

Heard today that a guy who is in the pool of new hires was told to expect to start training in Jun/Jul. This is second hand, but solid info. My question is anyone have any idea of the number of guys who haven't come on property yet who are awaiting a training date? In this instance it's a mil retiree who leaves active duty in May. Isolated case or not?:confused:

I was in the second new-hire group in 2010, interviewed July 6-7, indoc class Sep 6-17, A320 training began on Oct 12th. I was impressed with how quickly they got me through....and I retired from the Air Force. I think my situation was the norm. I think you'll be in good shape.

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Originally Posted by Jesse (Post 917376)

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Originally Posted by Elvis90 (Post 917515)

Congrats, and glad to hear your wait for training wasn't long.

I was asking more out of curiosity (I was hired in '08). Until I heard about this individual case where a guy is on active duty when he interviewed and wasn't available to start training until summer '11, I didn't know Delta had any kind of pool of new hires. Maybe it's just a bucket, and not a pool.

It just goes to show there's no need not to put your best foot forward with the application process. Not available for 9 months? Not a problem, just put that down and see what happens. Good on this dude for making it work.

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 917512)

hopefully the cleaners have the aft stairs down, that also is a great escape.

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 917512)

Really?

I figure since they can nail you via ACARS, they can ruin your holiday while sitting comfortably behind a computer terminal with :45 minutes left on their shift.

So, when does the hiring start? What does one need to do to get an interview? I have no military experience, although I was in JROTC in high school and college.

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Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 917440)

Anyone got the gouge on cheap airport hotels in DTW. Gonna be needing one in a day or so. Get in around midnight and need to catch a flight at 8AM the next day. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I use the La Quinta. They use the parking lot van service located behind them so you never wait long for a van. Out the door for about $45-50.

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Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 917477)

The inverse assignments will be flowing like egg nog.
Make sure you don't ... .

... give management a reason to force APC to out anyone. Our Company has a history of engaging in litigation against pilots who they perceive as organizing "illegal job actions" via web boards. I don't know the history, maybe some others can fill us in with the details.

Strange that we're the only job I know of where simply taking your scheduled time off (and not working overtime) can be illegal.

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Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 917477)

The inverse assignments will be flowing like egg nog.
Make sure you don't answer your phone.

Meanwhile, MSPM88B is fatter than Santa Claus. 65% for Feb - won't even be close to touching a line. :mad:

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Originally Posted by Jabberwock (Post 917064)

Your perspective ... from their perspective they were bought, their code was taken, their merger request denied, their attempts at negotiating scope to protect their jobs refused, their flying was dispersed. Clearly they saw the divide as having happened at the 2000 ALPA Board of Director's meeting.

When they organized and started to fight back, that is when you noticed the division.

Not that I condoned the lawsuit or supported it, but I understood why they decided to fight back. From their perspective, they were happy at a rapidly growing, highly profitable, airline which was telling them DC9's were coming to fly under Comair code. Delta bought them, excluded them from "their" flying and trashed the place. While they certainly contributed to the battle damage, history has proven most of their worst fears were spot on accurate.

In Comair's salad days they had their own code, own tickets, or marketing. Certainly they were growing into markets Delta was leaving, but as far as they were concerned it was no different than Starbucks moving into where Dunkin Doughnuts had been. They developed a lot of their own routes.

My understanding was that part of the reason for buying Comair was to capture it's expansion and leverage it.

You and I know the history of other regional airlines who tried to make it on their own code. Atlantic Coast, MidWay, MidWest all died with pilots losing their jobs. Comair and ASA might have done the same, but that is historical conjecture. They know Delta bought them and blame Delta for their problems.

Your history of Comair is a little confused. They started flying 77 or 78. They flew Piper Navajos'. They were not going anywhere fast and did not operate any jet equipment. In 1984 Delta brought them onboard as a feeder airline. Shortly after that Delta bankrolled and financed their first Jet equipment to feed Delta. That began a dramatic expansion all designed to feed Delta and controlled, funded and managed by Delta. Not sure where you think they were buying DC-9's. In 1986 Delta purchased 20 percent of Comair stocks. There expansion again funded by Delta to feed the CVG hub was huge. There was a brief rumor that in the late eighties Comair now wanted to acquire some DC-9's. Legal under the scope clause at Delta at the time however nothing ever came of the rumor.
The Delta decision to purchase the remaining portion of Comair came about because AMR under Crandell bought Business Express out from under Delta and we lost our NE feed for a bit. This had a crippling effect on the JFK international operation. Ron Allen panicked and bought both ASA and Comair for well above Market Value in a typical Allen move.
If you think Comair was a growing and expanding airline doing great things before they went to the Delta code in 1984 your should check your history. 98 percent of their expansion in seats was after the code share agreement and Delta dictated their schedules ect.. from that point on.