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PeanuckleCRJ said:
The makeup on my interview day was 1 Pinnacle (me- duh), 1 Shuttle America, 1 Eagle, 2 AirTran that were both former ASA, and the other 4 were ASA.

All except the trannies were current captains- the trannies had been captains at ASA before they left. All except for 1 AirTran were hired- everyone was extremely professional and obviously well qualified for the job.
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There are suppose to be 8 starting on February 5th. If I did my math right you said 9 interviewed and 8 were hired so can I assume you start on the 5th?
 
Yes, preferential interviews not preferential hiring. I'm all for hiring every one of those ASA guys/gals that helped out Delta furloughees in their time of need. As for the Comair folks, here's my thoughts;

We walked their picket line, we took assessments from our paychecks to put food on their table, we wouldn't fly their struck work. Then when those same Delta guys/gals needed help from Comair after being furloughed, Comair turned their backs on them.

Don't give me that line about, "it was the senior Comair guys, not us." In 5 years, I didn't have a single Comair guy come up to me in ATL/CVG airports and say, "it's not me", or "we don't agree with this", or "I'm really sorry this happened". I didn't see you trying to recall your MEC or JC Lawson because you disagreed with the policy. Your silence as a group was tacit approval and now it's going to come back and haunt you. I hope life's good over there, you don't deserve an interview.

Trigger
 
Whoops... it was 8 total that interviewed. There were 3 ASA guys, not 4.

I guess it's a miracle I squeezed by the cognitive skills test, eh? :)
 
I am not sure but I think it was at least 20 or so. It could have been more. All of them were great guys. If you could come here after working at DAL and deal with a 25 y/o snot nosed capt. you are a better person than I.
 
Does anyone know if people have been turned down after the second day?
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I was turned down 6 months after the second day. I still have the letter from Plato saying, "We would like to offer you employment as a Delta pilot....." I went into the pool, although they never really called it that. I just did all three phases and went home to wait.

Six months later: "Unfortunately, you do not meet our high standards...." This was in Oct. 1998, when my wife was pregnant with Ichiban.

Not to stir the pot, but y'all don't make any life-altering decisions until you're sitting in class.
 
Is there a list of pilots to be interviewed? If so, can a Delta pilot look to see where someone is on the list?
 
Trigger said:
Yes, preferential interviews not preferential hiring. I'm all for hiring every one of those ASA guys/gals that helped out Delta furloughees in their time of need. As for the Comair folks, here's my thoughts;

We walked their picket line, we took assessments from our paychecks to put food on their table, we wouldn't fly their struck work. Then when those same Delta guys/gals needed help from Comair after being furloughed, Comair turned their backs on them.

Don't give me that line about, "it was the senior Comair guys, not us." In 5 years, I didn't have a single Comair guy come up to me in ATL/CVG airports and say, "it's not me", or "we don't agree with this", or "I'm really sorry this happened". I didn't see you trying to recall your MEC or JC Lawson because you disagreed with the policy. Your silence as a group was tacit approval and now it's going to come back and haunt you. I hope life's good over there, you don't deserve an interview.

Trigger
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Funny... My take on the Delta relationship is a little different. Since I came onto the property a little over two and a half years ago I have always been nice to the Delta guys. Saying hi in the terminals and nodding with a smile...etc. I can honestly count on one hand the number of times Delta guys even acknowledged that I was there. It actually happened again this morning in the CVG parking lot. I asked the guy how he was doing and he just gave me a dirty look. Well f*ck him! After two and a half years I don't know why I even bother.
 
JoeMerchant said:
Using that logic, what right do ANY of us have wanting anthing from any other group? What right do you have to want your furloughs to go to ASA or CMR? What right do the USAirways pilots have to get super-seniority at PSA?

Are you saying that the Delta pilots have a "right" to get something from us, but we don't have any "rights" to request something in return?
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Ok I will follow your logic. Comair faught hard to ensure that Delta pilots would not be hired at Comair! We asked and your MEC said Fuc$ you resign! You gave us nothing! Now lets just return the favor, I say lets fight to keep the Comair pilots off our list. There is to much conflict between the two groups, it would just cause problems in the cockpit!
 
uba757 said:
Acarpe what a low life you are. I ask a question and you respond by calling me names. WOW. But I bet that you are the type of person who could never say that to someones face because you are just not a man. Coward. UBA757
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UBA757

So you say I am not a man because I will not say this to your face. What does that make you for doing the same thing? I would be glad to say it to your face if I ever saw you! No offense, I just donot want to see any of your guys come here. That being said, I don't do the hiring!
 
uba757 said:
So General I have a question for you. I was a pilot at CMR for a little more than a year from 2005 to 2006, would you oppose someone like me from being hired at Delta? UBA757
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YEP!, Look back to 2001, 2002 posts from here. Most cmr pilots thought the day Delta recalled would never come.....check the comments......it's hard to forget for many. No one proposed a resolution or voted out leadership..........................Not interested!
 
Have you seen the pay rates of the other majors?

Only FDX, WN, and UPS pay better...
 
NYRANGERS said:
YEP!, Look back to 2001, 2002 posts from here. Most cmr pilots thought the day Delta recalled would never come.....check the comments......it's hard to forget for many. No one proposed a resolution or voted out leadership..........................Not interested!
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There was one former Marine that wrote a letter to JCL and it was posted here. It fell on deaf ears. I would gladly walk his stuff in.
 
JonnyKnoxville said:
Funny... My take on the Delta relationship is a little different. Since I came onto the property a little over two and a half years ago I have always been nice to the Delta guys. Saying hi in the terminals and nodding with a smile...etc. I can honestly count on one hand the number of times Delta guys even acknowledged that I was there. It actually happened again this morning in the CVG parking lot. I asked the guy how he was doing and he just gave me a dirty look. Well f*ck him! After two and a half years I don't know why I even bother.
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Well, maybe he's not forgotten what the Comair guys did to our furloughees before you got there?

P.S. There is no relationship between the Delta guys and Comair pilots, that's my take on the "Delta relationship."

Trigger
 
ACL65PILOT said:
I am not sure but I think it was at least 20 or so.
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Did hiring furloughed DAL pilots at ASA bring any adverse "substantive" issues?

The reason I ask is because the CMR MEC made a big issue of the damage to CMR that would happen if they hired furloughed DAL pilots and did not require them to resign their seniority number from DAL. The CMR MEC is on record as supporting a policy that would require a furloughed DAL pilot to resign his DAL seniority number if they worked at CMR. The CMR MEC was adament that they fully supported the requirement to force these pilots to resign their seniority number.
 
NYRANGERS said:
You're right, they are only a little better than your "current position" pay rate....I stress.....a little better. Although all furloughed pilots are coming back at 6 or 7 year pay.
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Now that is funny. I make what a 12 year 75/76 captain make at Delta based on a 65 hour guarantee. I am a year 6 frac pilot. Things could change but...will they ?
 
TurboJetCpt said:
Now that is funny. I make what a 12 year 75/76 captain make at Delta based on a 65 hour guarantee. I am a year 6 frac pilot. Things could change but...will they ?
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Yes, but you have to clean your own toilets and bow down to jack holes. I fly corporate now, and it suks. Never ending sits at airports, boring FBOs, flying little planes, and airlining from the plane to home and back is not fun. It really isn't as great as you make it out to be. The pay is good, but everything else is not.
 
Heavy Set said:
Yes, but you have to clean your own toilets and bow down to jack holes. I fly corporate now, and it suks. Never ending sits at airports, boring FBOs, flying little planes, and airlining from the plane to home and back is not fun. It really isn't as great as you make it out to be. The pay is good, but everything else is not.
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Heavy:
I agree....QOL is not that great in the corporate world. I don't miss those 12 hour sits in the local FBO! And that was 12 years ago!

737
 
I just saw on our Dalpa website that there are several that are going to propose a resolution at the next MEC meeting. The resolution is to propose no hiring 0f Comair pilots. I would love to see this one pass! No one wants a Comair pilot at Delta! ASA is welcome in my opinion!
 
acarpe3448 said:
I just saw on our Dalpa website that there are several that are going to propose a resolution at the next MEC meeting. The resolution is to propose no hiring 0f Comair pilots. I would love to see this one pass! No one wants a Comair pilot at Delta! ASA is welcome in my opinion!
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I would love to see this pass also. When I get my hands on any documentation about this it will make me a very rich man. Then I can laugh at the thought of ever wanting to work at Delta.
 
JonnyKnoxville said:
I would love to see this pass also. When I get my hands on any documentation about this it will make me a very rich man. Then I can laugh at the thought of ever wanting to work at Delta.
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FYI: You can sue for employment discrimination if it was based on race, creed or national origin. But if it's based on what color shirt you wear, or what sports team you cheer for, or ... what airline you currently work for, I'm not sure you'll have a case.

Just my 2c.
 
those that have interviewed recently - if you made it to day 2, did Delta put you up in a hotel after day 1, or did you book your own?
 

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