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[bizicmo]

Do the Delta connection carriers get preferential interviews?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Do the Delta connection carriers get preferential interviews?

Yes they do. It also helps to have a few DAL internal recs.

 

[DAL737FO]

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.

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?

 

[Trigger]

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

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

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?

 

[BUCK]

How many furloughed Delta pilots went to ASA?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

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.

 

[Huck]

Does anyone know if people have been turned down after the second day?

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.

 

[737 Pylt]

Actually that's not true. That is the DALPA spin.

Yes it is JB. Its the rjdc spin machine that's alive and well!
Don't worry John, you need NOT apply either. Your name is synonomyons with "scab" anyway around the DL campus!

737

 

[terryhfly]

Is there a list of pilots to be interviewed? If so, can a Delta pilot look to see where someone is on the list?