Delta New Hires/Class Dates/Cleared to Train
09-11-2010 | 04:05 PM
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As Razor said, Boot Camp is easy and works great, as a matter of fact I am using my MacBook Pro to complete my systems CD now. There are however, a couple of downsides with Boot-camp:
First off you have to purchase a copy of windows if you do not already have a copy.
Second - you must re-boot your computer to switch back and forth. This is not a big deal if you use it for an exclusive purpose, such as DAL work.
I recommend that you go to the DALPA forum and review the computer section. Lots of good information on this topic. There are a couple of programs that run windows as a program vice rebooting your whole system. I think they are called Parallels and Fusion. I opted for the boot-camp setup because I use my MacBook for a lot of Navy crap that needs windows and was not sure if either of those two would work.
Hopefully DAL will come up with stuff that works on MACs.
Hope this helps.
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As Razor said, Boot Camp is easy and works great, as a matter of fact I am using my MacBook Pro to complete my systems CD now. There are however, a couple of downsides with Boot-camp:
First off you have to purchase a copy of windows if you do not already have a copy.
Second - you must re-boot your computer to switch back and forth. This is not a big deal if you use it for an exclusive purpose, such as DAL work.
I recommend that you go to the DALPA forum and review the computer section. Lots of good information on this topic. There are a couple of programs that run windows as a program vice rebooting your whole system. I think they are called Parallels and Fusion. I opted for the boot-camp setup because I use my MacBook for a lot of Navy crap that needs windows and was not sure if either of those two would work.
Hopefully DAL will come up with stuff that works on MACs.
Hope this helps.
Scoop
09-11-2010 | 04:53 PM
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09-11-2010 | 05:34 PM
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09-11-2010 | 06:48 PM
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Take the one with the largest number of mainline flights. Give MEM +1 for the FDX option. NYC -1 for the cost and -1 for covering 3 airports.
09-11-2010 | 07:10 PM
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[quote=Chente;869244]Understatement of the century. Commuting to NY, especially from the West Coast is going to make you question your choice of career. I commuted from PHX and DEN to NYC for a little over a year and it was horrific. I cannot begin to describe the nastyness. Like someone else mentioned, it's not just the long flight, and the time zones, the cost of being based in NYC (Transportation, crash pad, etc) adds up ridiculously quickly. There is no question about it, you WILL hate everything and everyone. The only thing that kept me going was thinking that someday, things were going to get better (In theory) and they did.
So although this post sounds negative and discouraging, what I'm trying to say is you have to look at it like this:
This sucks, but in the long run, it's going to get better, and this career is definitely worth the commute.[/quot
I commute west coast to east coast and I don't think it as bad as you say. Got a crashpad, and sit reserve some months..that isn't fun. But if you can get a line it is bearable.
So although this post sounds negative and discouraging, what I'm trying to say is you have to look at it like this:
This sucks, but in the long run, it's going to get better, and this career is definitely worth the commute.[/quot
I commute west coast to east coast and I don't think it as bad as you say. Got a crashpad, and sit reserve some months..that isn't fun. But if you can get a line it is bearable.
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09-11-2010 | 07:20 PM
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09-11-2010 | 07:31 PM
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Cost is $250 for a crashpad anywhere in the USA. Covering the 3 airports? Your responsible for being within 2 hours of one of them. It will be a 2 leg commute from TUS.
09-12-2010 | 05:57 AM
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Definitely $250 in the NYC area, but you can get them cheaper in DTW/MSP. I've seen $150-$180 for houses with your own bed.
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