New Hire Questions
#11
This ain’t the regionals. Things happen between now & whenever, & they get that. Give them as much heads up as you can about your scheduling needs & they'll treat you like an adult.
#13
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Joined APC: Jul 2014
Posts: 782
Double deadhead would be a rare occurrence but with covids reduced frequency and weird charter ops it can happen. I just saw a strange military charter come back from a military base via limo to oak and deadhead through iah to get to ewr. Probably first time I saw it in 5 years but I don't really look. Different bases have pluses and minuses. Ewr 737 and ewr 756 is some truly great, very diverse flying. If things start moving again everyone will goldilocks their way into the type of flying they want to do.
#14
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Joined APC: Nov 2016
Position: United B757/B767 Captain
Posts: 37
777 fleet is doing a lot of DH'ing due to the PW groundings and the broken up nature of frames that are replacing their flying (SFO 777 will DH to LAX or DEN to fly HNL for instance, then DH back to SFO). When I was on that fleet I used to DH to HKG to get a plane out of maintenance, fly one leg to HNL, then DH back to SFO to finish.
As a commuter, I seek out trips with DH on front or back. When you put a 'fake' DH on that segment (front or back) the company buys you a positive space ticket from your home. I live in the Midwest and am based in ORD.....but take DHs to LAX, SFO, DEN, HNL, etc.......and honestly haven't been to my base of ORD in the past month or so.
Double deadheads? As in two legs to get somewhere? Or two deadheads within a pairing? If picking up a jet that has been stored in the desert (Roswell, currently), you will DH to ABQ, then take surface transportation to ROW.....so I guess that is a double DH. My last trip was DH to LAX, fly one leg to DEN, then DH back to ORD......positive space from my home on front back, 10 hours of pay (two day trip / 5 hour min/day) to fly a single 1+45 leg.
DHs are now in First Class.....unless you take a fake (like I often do.....book myself in Econ+ and are placed on the upgrade list....which works out about half the time for the upgrade). Hope that helps......
#15
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Joined APC: Mar 2018
Posts: 2,347
Unless you already have a CJO here or at Delta (since you asked on their forum also), I would be more concerned about that first. In the past, at least here, they worked around military obligations.
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#18
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Joined APC: Aug 2020
Posts: 2,218
Oh come on. You know that you miss it. A 767 freighter jumpseat to Europe is just like deadheading first class on a passenger 777. I’m glad those days are over too.
#20
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Joined APC: Feb 2017
Posts: 336
flew with a guy that had a United cjo. Class date came he had a deployment coming up. He told United & the gentleman he spoke with said no problem. Well long story short he came back from deployment that particular guy left United and never relayed any info. Long story less long the pilot is still at the regional.
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