If you meet the published minimums (not “preferred” times), it is absolutely worth it to apply. Take your time, make your application perfect, and keep it updated. Don’t wait for some magic number that isn’t published. Lots of us got hired below the “magic” 1000tpic

 

Short answer: yes, apply ASAP. AFAIK they still consider when you applied and if you updated monthly. IOW that "weighs" a *little teeny bit* more than a brand spanking new app, all things considered.

Longer answer: Don't get wrapped around the axle about that though. There are too many pages to count in various threads about app/point weighing and the perception somehow persists that anything that adds weight to your app is an automatic fast track while anything that reduces points puts you into tier 5000 pergatory forever. Both those POV's are false. Pretty much every app will have some + and some - and it will be weighed in the aggregate when scored and again when interviewed.

The only risk to your situation would be that if your app is right on the very edge of what they're looking for and somehow only that 200 extra PIC hours would have put you over the top, then theoretically its technically possible that maybe just possibly you would have your app scored yet somehow fall just below the line of whatever they were looking for which usually means not another app score for a year.

However if that were somehow the case, then your next app scoring (and subsequent interview if relevant) would be that much higher. Now someone is going to read that and somehow come up with "less than 1000 PIC = trash bin 1 year lockout" when that's almost always not the case.

I would start the app (it takes time to complete anyway, you'll see) and they do consider when you applied and if you regularly updated once a month or so.

1000 PIC is a nice round number and for some airlines its either a hard requirement or only waived if you are an extremely connected applicant. AFAIK that's not the case at DL. Unless you're sitting on 995 hours or something, I'd just apply now.

MSP varies but with the movement we're about to see I'd say within 1 year in most cases and 2 years in all cases, black swan event notwithstanding.

Good luck.

 

Thanks for the replies. I think maybe I was misunderstood . I don’t even have 1000 Turbine as SIC (at around 800) which is why I was asking. I’m only going to upgrade in 2-3 years to start getting PIC so I was trying to figure out if it’s worth even trying right now. The website says minimum requirements of 1000 Turnine time. 141 grad , good gpa, volunteering etc but would I have to wait for a whole lot longer to even get a shot?

 

I might have missed it from an earlier post, but does anyone know about how long between internal rec and scoring. Scoring to interview?

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An internal rec flag will trigger a score within 30 days.

Nobody knows the time between scoring and interview. Could be a week, could be never

 

Thank you. The 30 days is what I was looking for. I should have been more specific when I said interview, what I meant was about how long do you think it takes to get a tbnt, or if they do extended the interview offer how soon has that been happening after scoring?

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The only TBNT that Delta gives (that I know of) is after day 1 of the interview when they don't offer you the CJO.

With regards to the app, you either get the interview invite, or you don't. Guys have their apps in for years and never hear anything from the company.

 

There is no TBNT communication at the application scoring stage. You are scored, then called for an interview on an unknown and unknowable timeline. If your score is insufficient, you simply won’t get an interview call, but you won’t be notified of that.

Essentially, your score puts you in the ranked pile. How deeply they scrape into that pile is unknown and ever-changing.

 

The system will filter your app until you meet the minimum requirements. It is involved enough of an application I would recommend starting it now and then updating it regularly.

 

Got it! Thank you all

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