Class drops..
#1171
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Class drops..
I was just asking because to me it seemed that your statement contradicted itself. Thanks for the clarification. Although I attribute pilot/fleet count more on the economy and e-commerce than anything else. As far as I know, none of the big 4’s scope allow them to outsource any aircraft the size of any of the fleet their seniority list pilots fly.
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I was just asking because to me it seemed that your statement contradicted itself. Thanks for the clarification. Although I attribute pilot/fleet count more on the economy and e-commerce than anything else. As far as I know, none of the big 4’s scope allow them to outsource any aircraft the size of any of the fleet their seniority list pilots fly.
Your welcome! Last I heard 50% of the domestic passengers are carried via regionals. Some of the big 4 have given away almost all or a large majority of international flying with JV agreements. I don’t think basing it on an airplane size has anything to do with the fact that you either fly it or not.
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Your welcome! Last I heard 50% of the domestic passengers are carried via regionals. Some of the big 4 have given away almost all or a large majority of international flying with JV agreements. I don’t think basing it on an airplane size has anything to do with the fact that you either fly it or not.
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Your welcome! Last I heard 50% of the domestic passengers are carried via regionals. Some of the big 4 have given away almost all or a large majority of international flying with JV agreements. I don’t think basing it on an airplane size has anything to do with the fact that you either fly it or not.
The mix of regional versus mainline flying is changing as we speak. As someone else wrote, DL has insourced much of their regional flying and UA is in the beginning of the process as well. As for JV, that is a good example of good scope. Delta has weak JV language in their scope section as opposed to United who has more widebody flying than any other US airline. Delta has the least but at least their pilots have put their foot down and demanding changes to JV scope. Here, crickets. I guess as long as we get a check every few years for the outsourcing…
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The mix of regional versus mainline flying is changing as we speak. As someone else wrote, DL has insourced much of their regional flying and UA is in the beginning of the process as well. As for JV, that is a good example of good scope. Delta has weak JV language in their scope section as opposed to United who has more widebody flying than any other US airline. Delta has the least but at least their pilots have put their foot down and demanding changes to JV scope. Here, crickets. I guess as long as we get a check every few years for the outsourcing…
From reading the DL thread it appears they have an LOA to make changes to JV agreements but it has not been implemented and is at a stalemate.
Lets hope we get some Scope improvements. As of now it appears what we have has worked fairly well when stacked up to the rest of the industry. At my previous legacy, at that time, more than 50% of our domestic flying was regional feed.
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Dude you need to stop with the blatantly wrong info. DL does not have long large bids like FDX. They’ve had multiple bids since our last bid. They also get passover pay. Our mega bid system does not allow people to get to high paid seats quicker because we gave up passover pay.
If you are switching Aircraft AND base, then the first conversions of the posted AE must be after your 12 month anniversary. Normally the first conversions will be the first bid period after the AE is posted. So if you are hired Oct 4 2022, and a bid next year closes where conversions begin Oct 1 2023, you will not be eligible to break your seat lock, you will have to wait until the next AE. And once you get an award most AE's have 9 months to actually train and convert you, so theoretically under a worst case scenario you could just miss an AE at 11 months, have to wait until say 15 months to bid, and end up converting where you want to go at 24 months. There is no real way to control or predict any of those variables.
Having said all that, the company can, at it's own discretion, give a new award to a seat-locked pilot. It's not super common, and really dependent on where the company is hurting the most staffing-wise, but even if you are under a seat lock you can submit a bid for whatever you want and cross your fingers that the company awards it. A seat lock does not prevent you from bidding, it just means the company doesn't have to honor your bid.
#1178
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I believe there was 1 class last just less than 2 weeks ago. Going forward until the end of the year there will be 1 class per month.
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Thanks for posting. Any one have intel if calls for interviews are still going out..? Or are the people showing up, called months ago..?
also, any rumors about class drops starting next year..? Have heard a rumor of much more 76/77 drops..
also, any rumors about class drops starting next year..? Have heard a rumor of much more 76/77 drops..
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