Company culture: UAL vs DAL
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Company culture: UAL vs DAL
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?
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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?
both great companies
go to which offers you a ground school first
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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.
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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?
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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?
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.
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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?
is this what made you fall in love with Delta Culture?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3lOu...8-4D311A2F611D
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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
is this what made you fall in love with Delta Culture?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3lOu...8-4D311A2F611D
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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
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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?
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.
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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
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
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