From someone who recently left a Fortune 500 corporate gig to come back to Delta, I can tell you the grass is NOT always greener on the other side.

welcome back!

Very true, some stink. I can think of a few in ATL.

Does that sound familiar?
It shouldn't, because Delta gets fewer passengers from Alaska than Alaska gets from Delta (straight from the MEC Update 7-11).

winning!

Cheers
George

[QUOTE=Carl Spackler;1085397]Bar,

Sadly, the company will not approve a leave of absence if it is for the purpose of another flying job. So Emirates or another carrier would not be an option.

If I wasn't so close to retirement, I'd apply at SWA or any other carrier that actually wants to run an airline, then I'd quit Delta as soon as I got the offer. IMO, you shouldn't necessarily always look for the highest pay and QOL, you should look for a company that actually wants to fly aircraft and for you to fly them. For those of us who work for the Delta Ticket Brokerage company, you're better off working at Priceline.com. It's a ticket brokerage outfit too, but at least you understand that's what you're working for, and the stock plan is incredible.



Carl,

The problem with this strategy is that every airline is potentially only 1 CEO change away from total disaster. DAL used to be the type of airline that people would leave other airlines to come to ..... and then we got Ron Allen and Leadership 7.5. Southwest now has a Herb trained and picked front office but who will they have next?


Scoop

good point....

George,

Funny how the LAX 737 are the only CAPT bids not out yet. I guess its getting harder and harder for PBS to find a solution to Alaska flying so many of Deltas passengers out of LAX. No wonder that the 737 leads DAL in total credit and LAX leads the 737. :confused:

But the Alaska code share is really good for us - just keep repeating it fellas. I hope DALPA figures this out.


Scoop

Apparently fiber is good for me to....

Do we have wifi at the training center? Since we don't have paper books anymore I just wanted to know if I could fire up my laptop.

I understand Scoop, but it's been my experience that once an airline loses control of its brand and believes the outsourcing "strategy", they never go back. It's almost as though they can't figure out how even if they wanted to. In the case of SWA and the few others that actually want to control their brand by only entrusting it with their own people, while it's true it could change with the next CEO, it's not that way now.

Given the option between an airline/ticket broker that has already adopted the outsourcing strategy versus an airline that wants to run like an airline, I'll take the latter. There's risk in the latter turning into a ticket broker also, but there's way more risk in staying with the ticket broker and hoping they'll turn back into an airline. As a young person today, I would only consider Delta a stepping stone to gain experience until SWA or FDX called.

Carl