NW NRT pilot base question

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riot shields

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I was wondering if there is any specific requirements for being based in tokyo for northwest (delta). I met some NWA flight attendants today and they mentioned that the flight attendants there still have to send a picture in their resume and their are measured as well, but i figured the pilots would be just the normal NWA pilots who bid for the NRT base.

any information on this?

thanks much.
 
i should say, it states it as a HUB on nwa.com, that and amsterdam, however it does not show up that way on airline pilot central. hmm
 
NRT is not a crew base for pilots at the former Northwest Airlines now Delta Air Lines.

It is a hub for sure, but just a base for flight attendants.

A-330, 747-200, 747-400, and B-757 pilots come in from the lower 48, ANC, and HNL via deadhead or flying a leg. From there the pairing can continue to points beyond NRT. The A-320 used to due the same thing when it was over there.

Same goes for AMS. A busy outstation with much presence but not a crew base, not even for cabin crew.

And if the picture with resume thing was true, they'd have hired me for that NRT base years ago. ;)
 
UAL has Narita based FAs but the Pilots come from somewhere else. On my NRT - SIN leg last week the pilots were IAD based. I would imagine that the pairing is something like 7 days long. Im wondering what a whole months schedule of this looks like. Days off / Credit.
 
It's pretty interesting, too, since the quality of service usually goes WAY up on those intra-asia legs. Would be awesome for the pilots to have a base there, it's probably just too difficult logistic wise and legality-wise for the company to do it.
 
E_Dawg said:
Would be awesome for the pilots to have a base there, it's probably just too difficult logistic wise and legality-wise for the company to do it.
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PanAm had a pilot crew base in Frankfurt. Don't think the legality is an issue. More like cost to the company is a player.
 
Lots of good stories I remember from guys that'd fly intra-Europe during the cold war. Speed of heat a few thousand feet up in a 727...
 
v1valarob said:
UAL has Narita based FAs but the Pilots come from somewhere else. On my NRT - SIN leg last week the pilots were IAD based. I would imagine that the pairing is something like 7 days long. Im wondering what a whole months schedule of this looks like. Days off / Credit.
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I dont know how the A330 and B747 pilots do it. But the 75 drivers bid a NRT line. Its part of the bid package. Its 14 straight days, worth about 85 hours or so. Then they have the rest of the month off. If i was a 75 driver, I would bid that in a heartbeat.
 
blee256 said:
Its 14 straight days, worth about 85 hours or so. Then they have the rest of the month off. If i was a 75 driver, I would bid that in a heartbeat.
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That is my dream schedule.

On a side note it was a little strange seeing a Continental 73 in NRT. Im guessing CAL brings pax over on the 777 and then they continue on, on the 73.
 
All the 737's in asia are based in Guam, with a pilot base there. Almost all of that trafic is asian vacationers going to GUM, or one of the several other islands that are served out of there. Very little US based traffic in that system.

That being said if you were to buy a ticket to GUM you can either be routed through NRT or HNL.
 
OldTownPilot said:
All the 737's in asia are based in Guam, with a pilot base there. Almost all of that trafic is asian vacationers going to GUM, or one of the several other islands that are served out of there. Very little US based traffic in that system.

That being said if you were to buy a ticket to GUM you can either be routed through NRT or HNL.
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Your telling me that I can buy a ticket from NRT to GUM on CAL? How is that legal?
 
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