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10-08-2010 | 07:13 PM

#851

FlyingViking

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Originally Posted by flyguy81

Where do you have outside recs send a letter? I have multiple outside recs listed with their phone numbers and how long I've known them but don't know how they'd send something in.

It is on the site, you give them an email address and Delta will contact them via e-mail. I had a record of them, included my CEO, DO, CP, FO, Rampers, fuelers, dispatchers, ticket agets, gate agents, as well as their spouses and everybody else I could think of. Got me the job.....

IOW; if you are a good guy, prove it to them...

10-09-2010 | 10:13 AM

#852

Brocc15

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Originally Posted by flyguy81

Where do you have outside recs send a letter? I have multiple outside recs listed with their phone numbers and how long I've known them but don't know how they'd send something in.

It sounds like you are mixing up References with Recommendations . I beleive the recommendations part is on the adendums for Delta specifically, where as the references section is somewhere else on the application. If you want your references to be your recommendations as well you will have to enter their email in the recommendations sections and then they can fill out the form and send it in. Once they send it in you will be able to view what they wrote as well.

10-09-2010 | 10:36 AM

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References are very important. Make the three our four (min) count.

10-10-2010 | 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Delta1067

An internal memo stated the the majority of new hires had graduate degrees and according to the latest seniority list it looks like the average age of new hires is in the 35-40 year old range. Also, at Delta it seems like 1/2 the new hire slots go to military pilots. After flows and military it's a long shot for getting called in no matter what your background is. Hang in there and keep trying.

That seems to jive with what I saw, except for age. My interview class was (approximately) 1/2 military. Besides me, the other mil folks were all reservists, most ~30 years old except for the prior-mil guy. BTW, he and I were the only guys older than the range you quoted, and he didn't get hired (he was told it was the testing).

The civs were in their late 20s/early 30s. All were Regional Captains (or former Captains who had been displaced to FOs).

I don't know about grad degrees of the other folks (I have one, and am about 1/2 way to a 2nd).

Whatever the selection process is, it's pretty tight. I was impressed by all the other pilots in my interview pool, including the ones that didn't get the nod.

10-10-2010 | 06:07 AM

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Wuzzo, that is the truth. Rarely does DAL interview someone that is not qualified and overall a really nice person. It makes the interview board's job that much harder.

10-11-2010 | 10:08 AM

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Any confirmation on the aircraft assignments available for the class that started today?

10-11-2010 | 06:42 PM

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OK, newbie question:

You're sitting a string of X days on reserve in November. On the last day, you get assigned a 2-3 day trip that occurs on your off-days. What happens, when:

A- ...it's early in November and you've still got 12 days reserve left in the mont. Do some of your later reserve days turn into off days, or does it get made up somehow in December?

B- ...the trip happens Nov 29th and 30th, so you end up with only 10 days off instead of 12?

C- ...the trip goes from Nov 30th through the Dec 1st (also an off-day)?

Thanks - this stuff is a wee bit confusing..

10-11-2010 | 06:51 PM

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DAL 88 Driver

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Wuzzo

OK, newbie question:

You're sitting a string of X days on reserve in November. On the last day, you get assigned a 2-3 day trip that occurs on your off-days.

Not sure exactly what you're asking here. But based on the first sentence in your post, I see something that could be potentially confusing you. "X days" are off days, not days on reserve. You would not normally be assigned a trip that flies into your X days. But if you did, you would get payback days in that month. Hope that helps.

Oh... and welcome!

10-11-2010 | 06:59 PM

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Payback days plus credit above guarantee regardless of total monthly hours flown.

As for the month to month carryover issues, not sure.

10-12-2010 | 03:24 AM

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Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver

Thanks... wrong use of words - I meant "X" as a variable and picked the wrong letter to use. So what I should've said in the example is "you're sitting a string of 5 days of reserve in November..."

I got a bit confused reading the big DAL thread when folks were talking about getting called onto a trip in the last minutes of a SC day and then having to fly into their days off. They were talking about International, though. Is that different?

Thanks for the help and for the welcome.