Y leave Envoy?

 

Because it's the greatest place ever with the best pay, work rules, bases, and travel benefits. That's why I talk to new hires at 9e who left Envoy. Because Envoy is awesome.

 

I see whay you did there.

 

I keep hearing Delta will weed them out. #1 Fly straight for one year and it will take an act of God to remove you from the cockpit. # 2 You can follow all the rules and still be a jerk.

 

Any tips/advice for approaching these "odd ethical questions" one could expect in an interview. First that comes to mind is "Captain wants you to make an announcement to passengers regarding weather delay when its really a maintenance issue"

Seems like any sort of ethical person would announce a maintenance issue instead and disregard captains request to blatantly lie?

Thanks in advance for any pointers

 

I don't get this analogy at all. Are you implying that everyone that isn't hired is due to a safety issue?
They could not hire you due to breath or BO.
You could go drill one in back at DCI, and they have no additional liability whatsoever.

 

The point is the fact that, for what ever reason Delta didn't hire 50% of the pilots "that participatedin the ssp" to fly Delta jets with Delta Passengers, but the same 50% can go back to Endeavor and fly the very same passengers on "delta jets" for a whole lot less money. I don't see what you don't get!

 

Still, Delta HAD to interview all of us. We weren't prescreened and called like the guys off the street. How many had a resume in for years with no call and then suddenly got interviewed through the SSP? Of course we don't have the high pass rate that off the street does. It doesn't make us less of a pilot or less qualified to fly Delta passengers, it just means they don't feel we are a good fit with mainline Delta culture even if we excel at 9e.

 

I got asked that question on my interview. They are looking for a response that shows you are a good problem solver. While we do want to tell the passengers the truth you don't want to create potential conflicts with the Captain. I've been in situations where we had a mechanical issue and the weather was so bad that everyone else was delayed. At that point it is very easy to blame the weather if the mechanical problem will be fixed before the weather delay is lifted. Be honest with the passengers and be honest with the Captain.

You can also get a question like "You arrive at the aircraft to find the Captain smelling of alcohol and exhibiting signs of being drunk. What do you do?" Same type of thought exercise. Obviously you want to have the CA removed but do you want to ruin the guys life? Best response in that situation is to tell the CA he should call in sick and if he refuses then you can call your chief pilot or base manager to bring in additional firepower. Calling the police is a last resort.

In short: be a team player, looking out for your crew, and do your best to problem solve. 90% of the interview they are trying to figure out if you are an easy going, fun to fly with, pilot.

 

The problem is, as short as they are, there are still no openings in MSP or DTW, and even worse, the captain openings being created by the few that have bid to NYC have not been backfilled in quite a while, on either airplane. Meanwhile, SkyWest has taken over one of our old crew rooms and bag rooms in DTW (and are building a large hangar) GoJet has taken over other space as well as some of our management office space. And our management keeps encouraging people to bid to New York for better schedules (that really aren't better commuting wise except for possibly being off reserve)