Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Mainline block hours are going up. That requires additional flight attendant and pilots. We were more overstaffed then the flight attendants and have the long term mil leave pilots coming back so they did not hire the 100 or so pilots they were considering this fall. The hiring will come. Why is that so hard for everyone to believe that the block hours are increasing?
Why....well because most of our experience with the airline or at least my experience has been furlough for over half a decade, a merger that brought crews for 100 aircraft we promptly retired and continuous loss of seniority in original DAL bases. We have never seen good times or progression. I know I should be happy and all that but with only 60 mandatory retirements in 2013 I'm not seeing the rosy picture you paint.
However, I would like to see good times, I would like to progress and I would like to break out of the bottom 15% of of the seniority list. Yes I know I have only been employed with Delta for 12 years and should be grateful to have a job. I actually had a SLC rep tell me that within the last 6 months. I found it to be an interesting message.