Originally Posted by Delta Pilot Working Agreement
11. The Company will fill a minimum of 35% of the aggregate of all positions in Delta pilot new-hire classes in each trailing twelve-month period (to the extent airmen are available) with ALPA-represented airmen at Delta Connection Carriers, subject to such airmen meeting the Company’s competitive hiring standards, and subject to the Company’s objectives for diversity and experience among newly hired pilots. Airmen who flow up pursuant to LOA #9 and LOA #10 count toward satisfaction of such minimum percentage.
12. The Company will offer preferential interviews for employment to airmen employed by carriers (whose airmen were represented by the Association) at the time those carriers ceased operations, subject to the Company’s objectives for diversity and experience among newly hired pilots and subject to Section 1 D. 11.
The Delta Pilot Working Agreement honors the following language in ALPA's Administrative Manual.
Originally Posted by Admin Manual, Section 40
It shall be ALPA's goal to secure contract language in every ALPA agreement which provides for the preferential hiring of ALPA-represented pilots displaced by furlough, bankruptcy, shutdown or strike. In furtherance of this goal, each MEC shall use its best efforts to secure first right of interview for displaced ALPA pilots.
The Pinnacle Bridge Agreement would reorder section 1 D 12, giving senior employed Captains first choice over guys on the street and dilute other ALPA members' rights to 1 D 11.
Arguably, Pinnacle's junior pilots have a better opportunity without the Bridge Agreement.