Originally Posted by
gloopy
That's exactly my point. The company owns hiring, and the company wants their interviews if at all possible. To any extent they utilize pilots to participate in the process, which they happen to seem to want very much to do, they do it at their own liesure. I'm glad you came to that conclusion finally.
You want to get on, except for a very few specific alternate pathways, you will have to interview. Even most of those alternative pathways involve the company participating in or controlling the interview at some point.
I have never had any other delusion. I have known that forever. Wholly owned, never owned, it simply doesn't matter. Companies will do whatever they want as long as it is in their best interests. While you may have seniority integration details in your CBA, outside that document the company is free to do as they wish. So what you or I think any HR department should do, the reality is they aren't asking us for our opinion as to how they should hire their newhires.