Northwest. They had this crazy idea one upon a time to bring their regional feed in-house. The idea of making them part of the list fell through, but the language about them having passed a Northwest airlines interview and having been hired at Northwest stuck. I was dead sure that deal would go away along with the red tails, but Delta kept it for the folks already on property. Must have been satisfied with NWA's vetting process. Or something, I dunno.

My classmate at Airline X ended up as one of The Anointed Ones over at Compass after the furlough. He had >3000 hours LHS on turboprops when I met him. Compass wasn't exactly slumming when they hired a lot of those pilots. Lots of former Indy Air, Champion, etc. Hell of a deal those guys are getting, but more often than not (from what I've seen), they've earned it.