ninerdriver

Don't be so rough on a newbie, dude. I would have been humbled to have the chance at *any* 121 when I started.

K92plane

I’m early 30’s it seems like a lot of my peers don’t realize how lucky we are to have these opportunities. I started in the Air Force enlisted got out went to college never thinking I would be able to be in a position to work for an Airline much less fly. Some interviews I go to it is shocking to see entitlement of some job applicants

notmpet

Yeah but that's what it takes to pass the Delta interview.

CMA757

Pretty strong too

DryClutch

ATL -200 FO / Long Call RSV. I flew zero hours in Nov, and I think i only actually worked 8 days total in Dec. For me it's great, love it. Others not so much.

theUpsideDown

As we've heard from HR people for a couple years since now there's more than one airline looking for pilots at a time. It was a lost decade and a half for pilots, and HR got to do anything they wanted. Spirit charged for interviews, even regionals had silly hoops to jump through. I understand how tough it can be to swing from the good to the bad, but after a couple years maybe everyone should just accept the new reality.

Even here we had pilots get the SSP, then hop to United because they lived in Chicago, you would have thought those pilots burned down an airbus when they left. A Memphis pilot did the same thing for Fedex. Get late in the evening at a job fair and the different companies will tell stories about delta calling united to "warn them" about a pilot who would choose to leave Delta.

For a few years pilots can be, someehat choosy. If you believe the retiree numbers will cause the disruption predicted, theyre gonna be come very choosy.

pangolin

I apologize - I really am humbled to be doing this too - but I'd hate to sit like this.

Soxfan1

That was 100% true a little less than a year ago at ZW for sure. No longer the case. Last Junior man for me was April 2018. Last extension was June 2018. I see the ready reserve rooms with pilots in it nearly every time I walk into hub base. Critical time for FOs is virtually non excistant. Open time is down 75% I’d say or more on the FO side. That said we are short on the CA side since the CPP started some more movement in that seat but we were only upgrading like 6 a month for a bit during the same time. That is up to 10 upgrades per month over the last two vacancies so I think it’s starting to balance back out.

Anyway not a reason to come here or not come here. But the company initiated cut in flying last year has things back to “normal” more so than in in the past 3 years.

Still the new Seniority list just printed for the new year has us just under 600. Up from the 460ish it bottomed out at 2 years ago but well off the 800/850 we had before that or the 750/800 that they say we want/need to staff all 65 a/c.

Avroman

Things started backing up at the regionals because hiring had slowed at many of the majors in 2018. United cut back a lot while they shuffled their current crews around, Delta instituted a more "regional airline" staffing model that had them halt hiring for about 6 months. Southwest has cut back their classes November through April. American is basically a go to their regional and get in line. So things have slowed at the regionals lately. Things SHOULD get moving again this year but then again the economy is getting shaky and who knows what that will do to hiring in the industry short term. Long term the retirements will happen and those jobs will open up.

TheFly

What’s 9E’s monthly guarantee for reserve pilots?