Originally Posted by
gloopy
CPZ comes to mind. DL doesn't control or even over see the AF/KLM hiring process, or many, many others. And neither do any of the other legacies. So what is your point? Some trillion dollar liability in the event of a smoking hole somewhere? Guess what that's already happened and hasn't worked out like you prophesied.
This is even sillier than the time wasting argument about regional pilots that don't pass a legacy interview suddenly become some chart busting liability if something happens. Fake, non event issue.
Fair enough. I had thought it was possible that not only do majors save money by not employing guys to fly sub-100 seat aircraft (since it's cheaper to pay a regional to fly 99 seats or less than it is to have a Delta pilot do it), but also that they save money by shedding liability for a large part of the flying (~50% of flying outsourced).
I stand corrected.