Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
If Delta were to do it's own flying, it would not put Delta behind other airlines for recruiting pilots. Delta flying being done by Delta pilots would increase the desirability and number of Delta positions.
Are Delta pilots turning down class dates because they might have to fly a 717?
Your repeating the tired old Chuck Giambusso justification for outsourcing fifteen years later makes it no more correct now than it was then; when such bigotry led to the furlough of thousands of mainline pilots.
Delta jobs are good flying jobs. If we recapture scope level of scope, then those will be Delta jobs.
The first point was there would not be a staple. Under ALPA merger policy it would end up in arbitration. On the second point if we bring a fleet of 50,70 and 76 seat RJ's to the mainline they become the entry position. If we don't agree to fly them at competitive rates they are not coming. That will certainly make us less desireable for new hires then other options.