Blueskiess

What is the ACTUAL company culture like at each company? I have always wanted to work for United, however after my recent interview experience at Delta I really enjoyed their culture from what I could see and was wonder how is the culture at each airline on a day to day basis? How does the company view its pilots? How does crew scheduling treat pilots?

Sniper66

both great companies
go to which offers you a ground school first

crewdawg

All of that stuff comes and goes. I'm on my 3rd airline and 2nd legacy, pretty much everyone is good to fly with. Show up, fly, go home. Go to the first one to offer a spot, then to the one that you don't have to commute to, then maybe the one with the easiest commute. Everything else can change with the wind. Of course bases can change as well, but you can only plan for so much. Even if you didn't have to commute for 1/3rd of your career, it's beats commuting for an entire career.

DryClutch

Ok ya got me........The job at each company is literally identical. No regular line pilot interacts with or employs some special "culture" when they go to work. Both the UAL and DL (or insert any other airline here) pilot do the exact same job with the same mindset. We push or don't push the wheel chair the same, we fly an ILS the same'ish, we look at or avoid eye contact with each other the same, their crew schedulers either call you or don't call you the same. It's hard to make this stuff too different between all these airlines.

Sliceback

They're misleading you. Right now you're in the 'cigarette phase' after batting above your weight on the crazy/hot scale. You're thinking you're in heaven. Reality is coming around the corner.

Someone tells you to COMMUTE from a base of a competitor because the OTHER company has a better culture? Contract? Uniforms? LOL. I'd run screaming out of the room.


Culture....yeah, I'd follow crewdawg's advice - where do you want to live? Go to whoever hires you first. If the other airline is your top preference keep applying to them for the first year. After several months, or perhaps a year, it might be worth recaging your expectations and moving to the best base that your current job has that fits your life's goals.

PNWFlyer

never ever trust anything you see or hear in an interview setting. They are just putting on a show.

is this what made you fall in love with Delta Culture?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3lOu...8-4D311A2F611D

ClearCreek

They want us to do this cringe garbage at UAL.

VacancyBid

Fixed it for you.

I take it you are either separating from the military or very young - either way not much 121 experience. Culture is real, but it's not monolithic across all bases, fleets and seats. So many other things swamp culture in day-to-day. And it's going to change as the massive retirements of the 2020's remove a lot of 20th century perspectives.

1) never turn down a legacy job
2) never commute without a really compelling reason
3) you can quit one legacy after 3 weeks if another one calls

BlueScholar

It seems DAL is more snooty and is arguably a slightly better run airline at this moment in time, beyond that you're flying still flying from A to B with boomer, conservative captains who are going to rant about politics and the contract and the unions. You're going to stay in nice hotels. You're going to work about the same amount of time, you're going to make more or less the same money, the work rules are more or less the same. Both scheduling departments will absolutely use you if they need to, and both companies will furlough you at the drop of a hat if they need to. Each will have 80-90% of pilots be great folks you're happy to work with a few a-holes sprinkled in. No matter which airline has the better contract or CEO or performance, the order of who is #1 or #2 can and will change during the course of the next several decades as new leadership and new contracts come and go.

What you really need to be worried about is A- which one has a base you'd rather live in and B- if you really want to get into wide body flying soon, because that will be a far bigger impact on how happy you are than your or other pilots' perceptions of what the "culture" is.

rickair7777

1. Don't commute if you don't have to.

2. In general, legacy culture seems to have somewhat more to do with domicile than airline. But even so pilots are mostly pilots, and you won't have that much to do with the cube dweller culture anyway.

But that insta video of the DL CA, good grief