At the time, 1987-ish, DL refused to employ pilots from other airlines, period. When he admitted to being at EA, a fact not on his oringinal application but he updated upon class start, they rescinded the offer. A vanishingly small number of pilots went to DL from other carriers then.

Not sure of all the details, but we had several idiots (clowns?) as EA wound down. One clown went to AS, while using sick leave at EA. AS called for a final reference, which EA looked into, found he was not only on sick, but had used FP Loss for some of missing time at AS. He was another one shotdown TWICE. A lot of us thought taking "revenge" was a good idea, even at a failing airline, it wasn't and isn't.

Columbia: funny, but I hope it's not true!
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