Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
Bring all the DCI jets to mainline, staple the guys who are flying them onto our list, up the payrates, newhires at Delta start in a DCI jet, every single regional pilot in the U.S will apply to come to Delta, staffing issue solved.
Or go buy every used 319 in the world (I would say 717's and MD 90's as well but we already own almost all of those in the world) and up the utilization to crazy levels.
Either way we are screwed for this summer. Everyone needs to stop putting in GS's and just do GSWC's. We had 7 GS's today in SLC which is a crazy number for a small category in May.
If management costed it out and felt we can do the flying the last thing they would do is merge the feed. It would be much simpler and cheaper to let the feed contracts expire and grow the mainline. No merger nightmares and you add a bunch of first year employees happy to be hired verses multiple airlines employees showing up slinging lawsuits left and right. It would look exactly like the ongoing 717 program at Delta!
There are two major issues with your plan. First if history prevails they are not going to accept a staple. It will go to arbitration. Second you have to be able to do that flying at a competitive rate to the rest of the industry. If not you lose that flying and some of your mainline flying as feed dries up. You then have a smaller airline and lots of furloughed pilots.