Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
I have very little respect for someone who tries so hard to "win" an argument on the internet. Your condescending tone always comes out when someone challenges you. We're just having a discussion here... chill.
However, I can give you a lengthy list of names of pilots hired with less than 3000 PIC from ASA alone. A good friend of mine just last week. Maybe, just maybe, you don't have all the answers either...
You pounce on 80 about being condescending when you make disparaging posts like this:
Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
Yes, DAL is only going to hurt themselves in the long run. I fully believe they are very much a house of cards. I do not believe they will be doing well 5-10 years from now.
Meanwhile, they are hiring military fighter pilots with no airline or crew experience, regional FOs who are connected or meet the right demographics, and regional captains right at 1000 hours PIC. Experienced regional Captains above 3000 PIC need not apply, because they are viewed as "untrainable", "undesirable", and too set in their ways. Nevermind that this was the competitive mins in the last hiring cycle. And these Captains who aren't good enough to fly DAL passengers from the right seat of a 110 seat B717 are just fine to fly DAL passengers from the left seat of a 76 seat CRJ900 on the exact same route. Oh the irony.
Yes, if DAL keeps it up, AA and UAL will have cornered the pilot labor market. But hey, they can hire who they want I guess. As the hundreds of signs in ATL say "World's Greatest Employees". Even the 22 year old female MD88 copilot who never commanded an airliner, but now has better career expectations than the 20 year airline captain.