All ya former NWA dudes. Congrats and best of luck with your future. I'd leave too, just too afraid to jump off the diving board.:cool:Anyway, I'm the guy who does the retirement pic/mat. Since you are resigning, NWA won't pay for a signing board. If you'd like one however PM me:)

Shiz, bdrB757 and CessnaPilot

Count me in as a redtail trying to jump ship. No luck as if yet but I am hopefull. One of my buddies also a former redtail now at brown had a look at my ap from an hr rep. I have the 8 out of 8 points from the April 10 window, but no call yet. From what he has been told it is random from the computer who gets the assesment.

If you guys know if there is anything that can be done from the inside please send a pm. My buddy is willing to help he has just hit dead ends so far.

Oh well at least for now I have mil leave to fall back on.

Caddis

With NWA hiring, what potential does this have for pulling pilots from Mesaba?

.... or for that matter, will the Compass flowthrough work as everyone is saying it will?


I know Eagle had a flowthrough, but that didn't work really that well.

reddog25,

Can you get me a monetary contribution box instead? Or maybe a vacation donation flyer? LOL

Just kidding. Thanks for the offer for the signing board.

Dive on in....

Brian

There is NO flowup from Compass until a pilot has BOTH 24 months as CA and 30 months on property. I don't know the terms of the Mesaba agreement. So like I've said in some other posts, I'm seriously questioning my decision to go to Compass if I miss out on 2+ years of numbers at mainline when I'm qualified to interview there already. Here goes nothing!:p

Correct
 

There won't be flow up from Compass for a couple of years. The Messaba flow thru is still in negotiation to work out the details.

Flow throughs, historically, haven't worked well... especially when the regional is wholly-owned by the major.

Eagle is the perfect example. To flowthrough an Eagle Captain to American Airlines:

1. Initial Training cycle for that Eagle captain onto an AA jet.

2. Upgrade training cycle for an Eagle F/O to replace the Eagle Captain.

3. Initial training for a new Eagle F/O to replace the F/O who just upgraded.


The above means three training cycle expenses for AMR.


That's three training cycles simply to flowthrough an Eagle guy.

Or, American could just hire a guy off the street:

1. Initial Training cycle for the newhire American Airlines guy.


That's it. The above means just one training cycle expense for AMR.


That's pretty much also why only 115 or so ever flowed up to American Airlines from the flowthrough.


I'd be wary of any Compass/Mesaba flowthrough, now that they are both wholly-owned by Northwest.

And what's to say that Compass isn't the next MidAtlantic (or whatever that wholly owned US Airways Express carrier was)?

Anyone know if NWA will be using the same psyc test they used back in 2000 to weed out a third of the applicants?

god I hope not...