NWA ....I need some inside info
01-11-2008 | 11:10 AM
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Man if I could answer that question, I'd be flying for fun and not for a living. The flowback is a possibility, but I still think UAL is better fit for DL than NWA is. Better fleet commonality, less baggage then NWA(Compass, Mesaba, and Midwest), and most likely a cheaper price. Who knows? All I know is I'm going to NWA class on Feb 11th unless its cxd. Then I'll go from there. Go to the interview, it can't hurt.
01-11-2008 | 02:36 PM
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Solidified pending everyone's successful passing of the medical. Calls to schedule medicals went out last week, so everyone that has an offer for the Feb. 11th class will be doing them over the next couple weeks.
01-11-2008 | 03:12 PM
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Thats right, the only thing its really contingent on is passing drug and alcohol test, background check, criminal history check, medical exam, and some other things. I guess nothing is solid until day one when you're on the seniority list.
01-12-2008 | 06:30 AM
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You can hold MEM almost right away. MEM and DTW are the junior bases for the 9 and ANC for the 747-200 engineer.
Does CA go senior?
Not sure on the 9, but the bus CA positions in MEM tend to go pretty senior.
Is there the possibility of higher-paying equipment there?
MEM is a DC-9 and A319/320 base only. Those are the two lowest paying A/C in the fleet- check out the payscales on APC's main website. You won't really be able to hold anything bigger than that out of training anyway so it won't matter for the first year or so. If you have aspirations to fly the 75 or something bigger, you'd need to be based in MSP, DTW, SEA (330 only, very senior), or ANC (747-200 only).
01-12-2008 | 12:20 PM
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Thanks! How senior does CA, or for that matter line-holding FO, go in MEM? I don't like snow and I don't like commuting, so I'm not really looking at NW as a whole - only NW in MEM (as compared to Spirit in FLL, Airtran in ATL.)
No bigger hardware in MEM? If so, how hard's the commute to warm weather on big equipment from DTW or MSP?
No bigger hardware in MEM? If so, how hard's the commute to warm weather on big equipment from DTW or MSP?
01-12-2008 | 02:21 PM
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As of the end of Dec. the 320 goes about 1000-1200 pilot numbers more senior than the DC-9 on the Capt side according to my sources at NWA.
Lineholder for FO in MEM on the DC-9 is around 90-100 from the bottom and the 320 is probably 800 from the bottom.
Hope this helps.
ERJ CA
Lineholder for FO in MEM on the DC-9 is around 90-100 from the bottom and the 320 is probably 800 from the bottom.
Hope this helps.
ERJ CA
01-12-2008 | 02:59 PM
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If you don't mind doing two training cycles back to back, ie train on the panel for the -200 and then almost right away go into training on the 9 then you could be off the panel and be on the 9 in dtw in a couple of months the way things are now.
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