Originally Posted by
Bartender
So you send them back to fly Delta passengers, in Delta owned aircraft at a different division of the company. That makes a lot of sense. What exactly did you screen for? You acquired lots of NWA pilots and Western pilots without screening them. I'm just curious why it takes a tougher screening process to fly Delta aircraft with more than 76 seats than it does to fly aircraft with 76 seats or less.
Again that is not the point. It does not matter what another mainline interview process is. It is what is in each mainlines contract along with ALPA's merger fragmentation policy. I would be willing to bet that if a mainline buys a regional and even if the regional had rock solid contract protections in its language, when or if it becomes apparent that anything would be or look detrimental in any way to mainline pilots, sudden miraculous changes would occur. You just cannot allow any benefit in any way to regional pilots except that all regional pilots should just be thankful they still have a job.