Which Airlines would you apply to?

[Hpilot]

1)FedEx
2)UPS
3)SWA
4)ALK
5)CAL
6)DAL

 

[BORAT]

1)PanAm
2)Eastern
3)Braniff
4)Wien
5)TWA

There is no good answer, you just gotta roll the dice and hope you come out alive...

 

[CoAlpha]

just bustin balls, i only wish good luck to all involved in this crapfest. life is short so i hope all works out. I do like to stir the pot here, if i pissed anyone off I am sorry. That being said, if you do get hired at a "major" I hope your QOL is better than it is now, thats all that really matters when you look back on it from your death bed.

 

[AA717driver]

This guy could be a GIV/GV or 604 CA and have "transoceanic" experience. (Why is UPS requiring that? Just to make sure you won't doze off @ 30W?)

These days, you cannot assume a 135 pilot is driving around in a C310 carrying lawyers to Pierre, SD.

On topic: Delta has yet to prove itself. CAL has yet to prove itself. ALL airlines are vulnerable. The industry WILL consolodate--it hasn't stopped so far.

Why not stay where you are and keep building PIC time? Unless you need 121 time (obviously, that requirement came from AirTran HR, not flight ops...) why go jerk gear in a jet when you could be building PIC time in one? TC

 

[acarpe3448]

Why not stay where you are and keep building PIC time? Unless you need 121 time (obviously, that requirement came from AirTran HR, not flight ops...) why go jerk gear in a jet when you could be building PIC time in one? TC[/quote]

I have always wondered what this means! What do you mean by "go jerk gear on a jet when you can be building PIC...." I guess I dont understand! If you go to Delta on a 737NG, MD88, or 767 or go to Airtran on a 737-700 or 717 do you really think the NFP does nothing but raise the gear and lower it? I dont get it!

 

[FLYLOW22]

None.

I would apply to none.

If I HAD to fly airline, I would fly boxes.

 

[Ty Webb]

What a wanker!

I would apply to none.

If I HAD to fly airline, I would fly boxes.

Then why are you spending your time in airline threads?

I would fly boxes OR people to get away from NJA flying . . . . but I'm not hanging out in the "fracs" section jonesing to tell everyone about it.


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[Mookie]

Delta Returns to Trading
With Strong Balance Sheet

By THOMAS G. DONLAN
May 13, 2007

Pilots often say that any landing you walk away from is a good landing. By that standard, Delta Air Lines made a good landing into bankruptcy in 2005, for the company walked away from the wreckage and spread its wings for a new take-off this month.
Not so the old shareholders, who were wiped out. The 400 million new shares that opened for trading on the New York Stock Exchange May 3 were issued to former Delta unsecured creditors, employees, managers and the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Trading under the old ticker symbol, DAL, the shares finished last week at about $19. Over the next two quarters, however, the company should do well enough to justify a price closer to $25. Looking further ahead, two Morgan Stanley analysts may well be right when they say "buy on material weakness," and project a share price of $27 to $29.
Delta shed about $13 billion of debt and lease obligations, 6,000 people and 82 planes during its bankruptcy-law proceedings. It now has one of the stronger balance sheets in the industry. And it is looking to grow primarily on international routes, which can be more profitable than domestic business. Moreover, there's a general uptrend in the airline industry and summer is always its best period.
But Delta and all airlines are risky investments, highly vulnerable to slumps, terrorism, fuel-price increases and overcapacity. They face intense competition on key routes. They do well in good times and atrociously in bad times.
Delta's operating losses hit $3.3 billion in 2004 and $2 billion in 2005, before an operating profit of $58 million in 2006. For 2007, Delta projects a pretax profit of about $800 million -- about $2 a new share, meaning the shares are trading for about 10 times 2007 earnings.
Thomas G. Donlan is a staff writer at Barron's magazine, available online at www.barrons.com.


But hey, Green knows better..... He is still bitter that he couldn't come on over in a merger, and has to stay with USAir and that mess. What a fun Summer they will have over there.....riiiiight.


Bye Bye--General Lee

So your company rapes the employees, doesn't pay bills, and now you have a great balance sheet. sweet...great job, what a example. At least JetBlue, for all of their faults, pays their bills.

I'll bet you are so ********************ing proud General....

Mookie

 

[AA717driver]

I have always wondered what this means! What do you mean by "go jerk gear on a jet when you can be building PIC...." I guess I dont understand! If you go to Delta on a 737NG, MD88, or 767 or go to Airtran on a 737-700 or 717 do you really think the NFP does nothing but raise the gear and lower it? I dont get it!

Yeah, but it doesn't count for anything unless you're planning on making a career there. You can sit over there and wargame what you'd do if you were CA but the reality is, it's not the same and it's not considered nearly as valuable as left seat time. IMO, 1,000 hours PIC on a CRJ is more valuable (from a hiring standpoint) than 5,000 hours in the right seat of a 777.

BTW, I've only got about 8,000 hours of gear jerking... TC

 

[Chest Rockwell]

So your company rapes the employees, doesn't pay bills, and now you have a great balance sheet. sweet...great job, what a example. At least JetBlue, for all of their faults, pays their bills.

I'll bet you are so ********************ing proud General....

Mookie

You nailed it Mook.

Is there any reason that management at DAL wouldn't do it all again in the future?

CR