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    • Sun Apr 13th 08:29 AM
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      Status Report: Delta - Northwest
      You don't really know anything about this sort of thing, do you? The negotiations were for a Pilot Contract - nothing to do with a combined seniority list. The integration, contrary to your "article", will take months or even years.
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    • Wed Apr 2nd 09:23 AM
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      Warning to Airlines: Flight Instructor Shortage Could Create Long-Term Problems
      Your scenario about pilot hiring in emerging countries happens everyday in the USA. Many regional airlines hire pilots fresh out of flight school with less than 500 hours. These same pilots upgrade to Captain when they reach 1500 hours total. The reason for this is simple: you get what you pay for. Pilots hired at regional airlines make less than $20,000 in their first year. The Captains make $35k in some cases. After 12-15 years with the airline, they can expect to make $80k with no retirement. If the experience levels of some of the crews at the regional airlines were posted in the cabin, I'm afraid passengers would be marching back off the airplane. I wouldn't put my family on that airplane flying at night in marginal weather into a special airport.

      By the way, I worked 60 hours a week as a flight instructor and brought home $780 per month. Then made $12,000 my first year at a regional airline, $19,000 my second, $24,000 the third. I'm not talking about the good ol'days in the 50's, or 60's, or 70's........that was flight instructing at an internationally renowned aviation university in 1996 and getting hired by ASA in 1997.
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    • Wed Apr 2nd 08:57 AM
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      Will Delta Agree to Northwest's Offer Without Pilot Consent?
      Even relative seniority would be a windfall for the NWA pilots. Both sides must consider what their company brings to the table in regards to fleet, domiciles, contract, etc... You then negotiate with what you bring to the table. 60 widebodies at NWA cannot hold weight against the 120 widebodies at DAL. NWA's 100 or so DC9's that were built in the 1960's are prime targets for parking jets in the recession. That means furloughs. Those furlolughs should all be NWA pilots instead of DAL pilots. NWA brings pilot domiciles in Detroit, Minneapolis and Memphis, with a very small base in Seattle. Whereas DAL brings Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, New York and Los Angeles. DAL's pilot contract is much more lucrative than that of NWA pilots. A DAL777 Captain earns more than a NWA747 Captain.

      In short, DAL pilots have far greater career expectations than their counterparts at NWA. A relative seniority integration would result in a loss in pay and schedule in the near and long term for DAL pilots, not to mention the furlough of DAL pilot families as a result of parking the archaic, gas guzzling NWA DC9's. In contrast, the NWA pilots would achieve vast increases in pay, schedule, benefits, job security and quality of life. In fact, that is why most prospective airline pilots apply first to Delta, only accepting a job at NWA if they do not have an option at DAL, AMR, UAL or CAL.
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