Originally Posted by Wasatch Phantom

As I said in my post: "I'll admit up-front my knowledge of regional carriers is limited". I meant that as an honest disclaimer. As a Delta pilot I am most familiar with what goes on here. Both Comair and ASA were wholly owned by Delta. My recollection is Comair did the hiring at Comair, ASA did it's hiring and so did Delta. I'm not aware of any mainline Delta involvement in the hiring processes at either ASA or Comair. Maybe it happened, but I'm not aware of it.



I'd agree with you that it hasn't worked out well for the acquired regional pilots. (Again this is based on my memory and could be wrong.)

There was a great deal of bad blood between Delta pilots and Comair pilots. To be honest that's a very long story in it's own right, but two things come to mind: One was the RJDC (Regional Jet Defense Coalition), Two, after 9/11 I believe it was the Comair MEC, rather than try and help Delta pilot furloughees, insisted that Comair management require furloughed Delta pilots to resign their Delta seniority number as a condition of employment at Comair.

There was also what was perceived by mainline Delta pilots as a "seniority grab" by Comair pilots, and IIRC to a lesser degree by ASA pilots. The gist was since they were now part of Delta the seniority lists should be combined and, oh-by-the-way, lets do it by date of hire. A Brasilia captain with lots of longevity wanted to slide right over to the left seat of an L-1011. Well how do think that went over with Delta pilots?

You're right about the "short circuit". I should have directed that part of my response to "all" rather than you.



I've never interviewed with SWA or FDX, so I really don't know what's different, and truthfully my Delta interview was more than 20 years ago. You're also right a slew of pilots didn't interview here. I think there was some pain and some "bitterness" after the DAL-NWA merger, but IMHO that's behind us and the "melded" corporate culture is stronger.

I'm not against hiring fellow union members. I want Delta to hire the best applicants, period. Whether they're from another ALPA carrier, a non-union carrier, the corporate world or the military I don't think it should matter.