Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
Yes, 70-seat jets will be converted to 76 seats at a rate of 3 conversions to each mainline airframe over 767. If they were to merge with another airline, say Alaska, then the mainline fleet total would allow for the conversion of all 70 seat jets, plus whatever additional RJ's the merger brought to the table.
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PD is a different animal. You HAVE to have above the reserves required available for the day you want to drop. Heck, you could PD christmas as long as there are more reserves than are required. You could PD as much or as little as you want, whenever you want, one day here, one day there, as long as there are more reserves available than are required.
Your APD renews at the beginning of the month you were hired in. If hired on Nov 29th, your APD resets on Nov 1...so use it if you have to before then so you dont dip into the current years one.
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Cool. Saw you understood....
I realize I'm kind of opening a pandora's box here. Or in layman's terms, I'm a cat that's accidentally walked into the bar at a Holiday Inn south of Cleveland where all the SWA pilots are getting half off beer specials.
But, I wanted to see years of service for various places on the seniority list.

Please ignore the NWA/DAL differences because it's a different topic but if I didn't do both then it wouldn't have been accurate and someone would've corrected it.
BTW, 11 years of seniority barely, by two numbers, holds a weekends off line on ATLM88B.
But, I wanted to see years of service for various places on the seniority list.

Please ignore the NWA/DAL differences because it's a different topic but if I didn't do both then it wouldn't have been accurate and someone would've corrected it.
BTW, 11 years of seniority barely, by two numbers, holds a weekends off line on ATLM88B.
I'll use myself as an example. A buddy of mine was typically about 4 to 6 people ahead of me with near identical days of reserve. He now sits in bucket 2 but got there with a 97 raw score. I have 0 hours. So he flew for me. I don't like that system and I'm benefiting from it.
One thing I didn't realize was an 80 raw score is not bucket 2, it's bucket 1 still. So you can hit 80 and be up for a 4 day before someone with 0 hours flies.
You are making the 320 look a loot cooler than I thought. Does it play that song on every flight?
This is what inspired the look:
I just barely squeaked into 4 digit territory and I really don't expect to sit left seat at all at Delta. I have no desire to be on MD reserve so the lowest cat airplane I would sit in is the 73 or Baby bus. I expect to retire at 23 years of service as an FO never holding the CA seat (only way this changes is with a booming economy and LOTS of Hiring by Delta.
Same or worse for me. When I tell the guys I'm flying with that I'll be over 18 years here before I can be a captain, they look at me like I have a horn growing out of my head, or say I'm being too picky about my first captain seat. I try not to dwell on it or be bitter about it, but I'm my 14th year, and I still have a 5 digit number. Most of the guys I fly with have been captains since about the 7 or 8 year point.
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