FlyingViking

Comfort Inn worked like a champ, nice to meet other Delta guys for b-fast and all of us that stayed there got hired. They where late washing my clothes (did the interview between two trips..) and didn't even charge me. Short ride to HQ and all the drivers know exactly where you are going in your blue suit and red tie.... Yes, you stick out like a sore thumb, but every one I talked to did whatever they could to help and make me feel at ease as well as welcome. Great place for great people!

DAL4EVER

Let's see IronWalt - FedEx pays for hotel (nope), UPS (nope), majors (nope), hmmm. Not having any luck here so far. Regionals, nope. National - nope. Southwest (nope). Damn. Time to leave the country to find one that does.

Why should they pay if you may not make it. There is no return on that investment. This is the price of interviewing. Trust me, fly a greenslip and you can get a room for the month. That's with the 50% paycut. If you want the job, there is a cost of doing business. This means getting a nice suit, doing your prep, and getting a hotel room. Your competition is going to do it because they want it. If you want it, you will find a way to do it. Plus if your lucky enough to get a couple of major interviews that means you will only have to foot the bill for two or three night stays.

I paid for my hotel room years ago and it was the best money I ever spent. I think I hear a Pink Floyd song playing:

"Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
Mommas gonna keep baby cozy and warm"

StripAlert

JetBlue pays for travel and puts you up in the hotel. I thought it was a classy touch, but didn't take the job. I landed at a startup where I had to pay for travel to/from the interview, hotel at the interview, travel to indoc, and the hotel for the week of indoc, all at my own expense. I also had to front $300 for a drug and background test, and another $200 for F/E written prep and exam (on three days' notice). My impression: not so classy. (Though it's all in where you're coming from, I suppose--there was a former regional captain hired about a year later who couldn't be happier that his training pay with us exceeded his earnings flying the line at Mesaba.)

Still, that was more than compensated for by being paid almost double the first year and working two 8-hour legs every three days vice several trips up and down the east coast daily. You've got to keep an eye on the bottom line and ignore the individual cost/benefit items.

And as DAL4EVER also alluded, it's kind of silly to fret over the expense of a night or two in a hotel when you've spent untold thousands on getting your ratings and building time. My biggest complaint is the ATP for mil guys, actually. I mean c'mon--I was a heavy jet aircraft commander at 25 but I have to drop over two grand on ground school from a kid who doesn't even have enough experience to get an ATP and 6 hours in a Seminole to prove it? I only wish Delta was hiring a year and a half ago--there are a couple guys in my new hire class that only have the written, and I am so envious! I would've much rather done the checkride in a 767 sim than in two lawnmowers strapped to a kite.

I do wish DAL paid for a hotel for initial training, but whatever. It's $400 for the month in a nice crash pad, which equates to $288 net after the tax deduction. I think I've already extracted more than that in non-rev travel to/from my Reserve gig.

FlyingViking

100% of your job search expense is tax deductable so it really cost you nothing unless you are making $0,- already (or working for Mesa or someone - that is close enough..)

StripAlert

It's a tax deduction, not a tax credit.

BalloonChaser

Anyone have the number for the Comfort Inn?

SJF15E

(404) 768-7800

Good Luck.

BalloonChaser

Thanks

Bigflya

I would definately rec the Comfort Inn. It is much nicer then the Confort Inn you typically think of. Covered drive-up, nice wood front desk areas. Pretty good Mexican as the hotel restaurant. Good Italian across the street at the Wellsley (nice non-alcoholic celebratory meal). They will allow late check-out for those that do not get the nod first day. I will caution you this though. Always watch your P's and Q's as your grandmother would say. I sat one table across an older gentlemen at breakfast. Kept my mouth shut. He ended up being on the interview team that day and I had him. Everything went great. I would have had that sinking feeling in my stomach if I acted like an ass or something and would have sat there.