Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan

It will be interesting moving forward to see if they have any problems recruiting given the announced flat fleet through at least 2018, non-industry standard reserve rules, lack of commutable trips, inability to "drop" trips, and high prerequisites to hire (type rating and PIC turbine). I suspect over the near term they won't, but they may be forced to go down the road of retention bonuses (like jetBlue did) as the pilot shortage deepens and upgrade times at the legacies come way down.

(Supposedly Delta is at around 2007 already. Imagine that... It's possible that someone who hadn't even started flying on 9/11 could be a Delta Captain!? Crazy!)