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Old 12-20-2006 | 12:02 PM
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Great news that they're about to crank up hiring. Is the lineup going to be long from the regional quarters?
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Old 12-20-2006 | 12:03 PM
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*Looks at Gordon & shrugs*

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Old 12-20-2006 | 12:14 PM
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*looks back with slanted eyebrows*
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Old 12-20-2006 | 12:33 PM
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I will be applying for Delta Airlines.
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Old 12-20-2006 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by saab2000
I will be applying for Delta Airlines.
I ask because these new hires could be furloughed if a merger with US Airways did occur.

This could be a ploy from management- based on the faulty assumption that Delta stays unmerged going forward.
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Old 12-20-2006 | 12:39 PM
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There minimums aren't that high at all. I would think that they would be getting a rush of applications in the next few days! Looks like the regionals are once again going to start feeling the drain. They already need pilots due to attrition and some for expansion, but a mass exodus to the majors would hurt kind of much there, eh? I know that there wouldn't be a mass exodus, but you know what I mean.
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Old 12-20-2006 | 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by tyrael37
There minimums aren't that high at all. I would think that they would be getting a rush of applications in the next few days! Looks like the regionals are once again going to start feeling the drain. They already need pilots due to attrition and some for expansion, but a mass exodus to the majors would hurt kind of much there, eh? I know that there wouldn't be a mass exodus, but you know what I mean.
How much do you want to guess that the first fifteen classes are friends of management, check airmen, and other high ups?

Not that there's anything wrong with that

Yeah, the regionals have been in a pinch, and it'll only get worse in '07.
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Old 12-20-2006 | 12:58 PM
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It might be a ploy, but that is the chance I will take. Delta is also not the only airline out there.

The pilot shortage I have long predicted is starting to manifest itself.
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Old 12-20-2006 | 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by saab2000
It might be a ploy, but that is the chance I will take. Delta is also not the only airline out there.

The pilot shortage I have long predicted is starting to manifest itself.

Perhaps you have a future with The Boyd Group.
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Old 12-20-2006 | 02:00 PM
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Perhaps you have a future with The Boyd Group.
Well, what goes around comes around. I can remember having an argument with someone a year or so ago about the 'thousands' of pilots on the street and that no airline would be hiring for probably 10 years.

I told him him how many furloughed pilots from the Legacy carriers had found new airlines or left the industry. Retirements and other attrition, plus the fact that only a fraction of the furloughed pilots would return would lead to a shortage in the not-so-distant future. I still believe that.

Waiting for Boyd to call!!!
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