Is Delta Hiring?

[Dan Roman]

I agree. It was very rare at my 2 airlines to be anything OTHER THAN white male.

But he needs to make himself feel better for not being qualified for a better job.

The simple fact is all the whiners about non white/females getting hired at the airliners are people trying rationalize why they didn't get hired.
Plenty of white males get hired at all airlines, if you can't get hired it is not because you are being discriminated against no matter who you are.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Retirements by year: (Does not take in to account the 165 early outs this year) I also assume that DAL will need to offer early outs to try and smooth out this peak.

2011 5
2012 18
2013 101
2014 157
2015 224
2016 297
2017 372
2018 463
2019 549
2020 640
2021 824
2022 866
2023 821
2024 809
2025 719
2026 614
2027 513
2028 479
2029 476
2030 492
2031 428
2032 324
2033 257
2034 165
2035 108
2036 92
2037 46

 

[Sacha]

Oys

Moving back and forth between equipment sounds great. Now is there a cost associated with this to the company? What's that? You don't care?.... Your entitled?.....Figures. I guess you didn't learn anything at United.....or maybe you did,hence your entitlement attitude.

Your Avatar couldn't be more spot on. Now as an all-knowing new-hire, could you comment on my Delta buds major concern with your managements drive to Codeshare with other international airlines and domestic regionals. They all got hired in the mid to late 80's so what do they know? But they keep using the term "Virtual Airline" to describe Delta. Is that true?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Oys

Moving back and forth between equipment sounds great. Now is there a cost associated with this to the company? What's that? You don't care?.... Your entitled?.....Figures. I guess you didn't learn anything at United.....or maybe you did,hence your entitlement attitude.

Your Avatar couldn't be more spot on. Now as an all-knowing new-hire, could you comment on my Delta buds major concern with your managements drive to Codeshare with other international airlines and domestic regionals. They all got hired in the mid to late 80's so what do they know? But they keep using the term "Virtual Airline" to describe Delta. Is that true?

Delta's argument is that training costs are static. The ROI for a training event according to them is under two years, same as a furlough. If you band pay together, it becomes a QOL decision. DAL may go that way, and you would be looking at an average of five training events in a career.

 

[Sacha]

Well Mr. Burns is planning 5 training events in five years. Just as well. Keeps him off the line. The Instructors at Mecca will start having to draw straws though.

 

[Dan Roman]

Oys

Moving back and forth between equipment sounds great. Now is there a cost associated with this to the company? What's that? You don't care?.... Your entitled?.....Figures. I guess you didn't learn anything at United.....or maybe you did,hence your entitlement attitude.

Your Avatar couldn't be more spot on. Now as an all-knowing new-hire, could you comment on my Delta buds major concern with your managements drive to Codeshare with other international airlines and domestic regionals. They all got hired in the mid to late 80's so what do they know? But they keep using the term "Virtual Airline" to describe Delta. Is that true?

Wasn't SWA's plan to expand internationally by using a Canadian and a Mexican airline to do the flying?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Well Mr. Burns is planning 5 training events in five years. Just as well. Keeps him off the line. The Instructors at Mecca will start having to draw straws though.

Bracketing pay takes away one of the incentives. What I see here at DAL is guys bidding for QOL, not pay, and not matter what you do to pay, people are going to bid for that.

I suspect we will have pilots sitting out bid due to the massive retirements. No one will want to get locked in to a seat for two years, so you will see some crazy awards going on in about five years.

 

[Sacha]

Wasn't SWA's plan to expand internationally by using a Canadian and a Mexican airline to do the flying?

Yes. What happened to that? Any ideas?

We didn't think too much about that and let GK know about it without too much fuss.

A group of friends went to Alaska in June for some fishing. We were going to buy full fare on Delta since some of the guys were Delta but strangely we ended up on an Alaska airlines aircraft. Not many Delta aircraft with Delta crews going that way anymore. What's up with that? Did you buy them?

Is Salt lake still shrinking? I see those Skywest jets all over the place. Do they fly routes that you used to fly?

If all you can do is pull out the names of a couple of little airlines in Mexico and Canada and compare that to your issues, I just have to wonder. That's about as rational as saying our Nation can solve our mult-trillion dollar debt by taking away tax credits for Corporate jet owners. Ludicrous.

 

[twobits]

AC,

That is possible - there always will be one or two extreme surprises. You might even see new hires on the 777!

Jonjuan,
no hatred. Just being practical. I also predicted that the JAL merger would not happen, while most were licking their lips saying that they knew a manager who said it was a done deal (BTW - managers are paid to lie to you)! Nobody could have predicted the tsunami disaster, but if Delta had acquired any part of JAL; it would have been a financial mess of huge proportions! Starting hiring in 2015 seems reasonable - but of course it could be sooner.... or later. My assumptions are that a few hubs will be consolidated - coinciding with the exit of the DC-9. Retirements will be higher... but so will the general population's retirements. Guess what, less discretionary income to go around, less travel for business, and a massive shift in how money goes around will change airlines fleets, frequencies and destinations. So, saying good bye to the old folks on the seniority list is a double edged sword!

I've been wrong before, but this is an opinion board - I'm practical, not hopelessly optimistic (what management wants you to be so you stay a happy employee). You have to take the good with the bad!

 

[jonjuan]

AC,

That is possible - there always will be one or two extreme surprises. You might even see new hires on the 777!

Jonjuan,
no hatred. Just being practical. I also predicted that the JAL merger would not happen, while most were licking their lips saying that they knew a manager who said it was a done deal (BTW - managers are paid to lie to you)! Nobody could have predicted the tsunami disaster, but if Delta had acquired any part of JAL; it would have been a financial mess of huge proportions! Starting hiring in 2015 seems reasonable - but of course it could be sooner.... or later. My assumptions are that a few hubs will be consolidated - coinciding with the exit of the DC-9. Retirements will be higher... but so will the general population's retirements. Guess what, less discretionary income to go around, less travel for business, and a massive shift in how money goes around will change airlines fleets, frequencies and destinations. So, saying good bye to the old folks on the seniority list is a double edged sword!

I've been wrong before, but this is an opinion board - I'm practical, not hopelessly optimistic (what management wants you to be so you stay a happy employee). You have to take the good with the bad!

For very short term prognostications, you were wrong-TWICE. 1) All DC-9s will be gone in '11 and 2) no hiring until '12 (done in '10). Then again, a broken clock is right twice a day. Coincidence? I think not.