The guys are to be finished and online by Oct So they may have them finished by the end of Sept. Is there a specific date they have to be in compliance by or is it just in the calendar month?

Not sure on the contractual requirement. Since most of them are RD's, I wonder if any of them are current enough to get the short course (I doubt they would be).

That's why they call it training. They should train you not self study......:D

Sorry ACL but the award cannot be canceled. Our APA system says these guys will be flying in their awarded position come Oct. Now that doesn't mean that they can't be displaced by -200 guys who loose their position but any AE for us will result in flying on or after Jan 1 2010.

True.

Lots of good times ahead!

Commuting to 11 days off with trips that are not commutable on the front or the back end?? No thanks. I'll take 48k a year as an assistant manager at QT and sleep in my bed 30 nights a month instead of 3.

Doubtful. Paperwork can be pulled even after the deadline (can't remember the exact date). I seriously doubt DAL-N staffing would move on any PRIPs until it was absolutely written in stone.

Hey, at your house, you are the MEC chairman. Take a cue from Dear Leader and ignore the will of your house. Tell your roof to suck it up and leak. The oldest, most senior floorboard in the living room isn't the one being leaked on, after all, so how important can the leak be??

That is absolutely brilliant. :D

VIVA JUNE 23RD!

ACL,

To make 75K a year on a $64 rate, you'd have to credit 97hrs a month. You'd time out before that would even happen. You have to remember that Compass doesn't have a premier contract.

I have issues with picking up open time knowing people are on furlough. By taking the hours, you are allowing the company to run lean, keeping people on the street. Good luck getting that type of credit over the backs of other pilots.

Also the idea of being a senior pilot isn't quite true. Not every furloughed DAL pilot is going to be senior if they were to go to Compass. It would only take an estimated 335 flowbacks (the current number of pilots there from APC) to take the most junior FO spot over there. Compass isn't that large. That leaves only about 170 CA spots. $34/hr, going junior enough to be on reserve, and commuting is what I am worried about if I were to go there. Even if you kept a junior CA spot and you did pick up flying to get a higher credit, I think it would be extremely difficult commuting on short call reserve with 11 days off.

The questions I asked about the flowback weren't about what I thought about the planes, but rather so I can be informed on if it were a smart choice to go to Compass. I'd like to know if it is a one shot deal, if you could go there to see if it is worth it, etc... I'd love the plane to be at mainline, love to fly it, but it needs to make finacial sense for me to go over there. I appreciate the information you place on the board, but not everyone is in the same position as you are.