Nominee - POST OF THE DAY.

So sad, but true.

Without seeing the actual letter, I'd be extremely hard pressed to believe this. If it was real it'd be called MOU blah blah blah or LOA blah blah blah... not something as cool and dastardly sounding as "THE VAULT LETTER"

Just curious about Delta's medical examination they give you? Is it pretty a whole first class medical screening?

First class plus EKG, blood drawn by a lady that has no idea how to find a vein, and a hearing test.

And she touched my thingies:)

I had suppressed that memory I guess. :)


Might I suggest to the DL guys to contact your reps on this. Not only has 9E gone around DALPA and negotiated with DL mainline directly (major issue, but the national lawyers are turning a blind eye to it), but now they are apparently going to get lowered qualification requirements.

Not true. There are two pilots I know who flowed that did not have degrees. 1 is still at Delta and a very good pilot as he was my sim partner at Compass. I say it without reservation that he is very good at his profession. The second was the notorious individual who was given many chances to be successful but never seized the opportunity.

Quit worrying about 10 pilots who don't have a college degree. YOU need to worry about these alliances that just got signed with the European airlines. That's what will eventually take YOUR blessed Delta job away.

Not really. We have protections against those in our contract.

He said fewer than 10. You cite 2. How is his statement false? I think he is accurate. And about 9 of the 10 are ex ata/independence air guys with 10-20k hours.