Ran into a Delta employee about a week ago in the employee parking lot favored by many DTW employees, which is Qwikpark. They pay $4 a day, btw.
This guy has a good full time job in a different industry. He works part time as a baggage handler for Delta. If you work 600 hours in a year, you get employee flight privileges for you and your spouse. If you do that 10 years in a row, you get flight privileges for life for you and a spouse.
I thought working the 600 minimum could be worth it, especially if you are young and would get many years of free flights.
This guy travels 3 to 4 times a year.
You know that the baggage handling job is bad for most, because he has been there between 4 and 6 years, and is already in the top 50 for seniority, out of over 500 current baggage handlers. Translation is the turnover is huge and you will have high seniority shortly and better jobs. SO, most never get to 10 years to lock in their benefits.
They top out at $14 an hour.
With this high seniority, he doesn't need to work weekends and cherry picks the best jobs.
