Originally Posted by
gloopy
While he may have used some imflamatory rhetoric about regional hiring standards to make his point, all he was basically saying was that mainline should be able to interview the pilots it hires. Hardly in the realm of Hitler.
Didn't they already hire the pilots? If you buy a ticket on Delta and you connect on a CRJ-900 in ATL aren't you being flown by a Delta Pilot? Where is the standard? They were good enough to allow there passengers to fly on a Delta Connection Plane. I don't see any Delta mainline Pilots Levitating around the ATL airport with halos around there heads.
We had a few WO'ed pilots (good ones) get turned down at US Airways and they came right back to Piedmont flying US Airways Passengers. Hmmm makes me wonder. So basically they are still good to fly US Airways passengers? But just not good enough to fly them on a bigger and easier plane to fly. Don't get me wrong I think Mainline should be able to hire who they want. But it's just kinda funny when they turn down a pilot that's already basically flying there metal.
I have a feeling that soon American will take over all the hiring at the WO'ed airlines.