Originally Posted by
Lone Palm
The chess game for new hires is here.
The board was taken out of the box and unfolded, but no real moves have taken place. Yet.
They need significant pay raises and work rule improvements as well as some "outside the box" things like maybe tuition reimbursement (only a stop gap that will eventually increase the cost of learning to fly as all subsidies eventually do), hotels for all training, signing bonuses, retention bonuses, perhaps training contracts although that is a double edged sword that often hurts their efforts more in the long run.
And all this still does nothing to fix the very core issue: a lack of student pilots who will eventually become 1500 hour pilots so they can go to a regional then a major. DL had such an infrastructure once and it was actually doing a pretty good job. But, true to B-school form, they bought high and sold low, losing control in the process.