Its also worth nothing that DL has one of the best probation systems in the industry. In addition to "timing out" at 400 block hours, which if you don't train twice during your first year you easily will (busy narrowbody categories could time out in month 7 or 8 including indoc very easily) you also gain protections after you finish OE.

18.D.2. is a very meaningful section and its simply false that you can be canned for anything. Getting terminated from obeying the rules of the commuting policy (contractual or the more generous company policy) would be a very indefensibile position for the company to take unless there were significant mitigating circumstances.

Pilots also have up to 120 days after probation to protest something. So the company can't just shred the contract for probies; they will have to answer for it eventually.

You can also ship 1000 pounds of stuff to your base as a probie new hire. Not many people take advantage of that, but its cool to have I guess. Anyway new hires should find the entire experience suportive and welcoming. Its not perfect, but its pretty good. The last thing we need are a perpetual subset of a couple hundred pilots operating "off contract" because they are afraid of being fired for no reason. Its not going to happen.