Originally Posted by
billyho
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.
Post of the year. By allowing us to fly their passengers around on airplanes they own, mainline has at least tacitly signed off on our ability to be their pilots. If we aren't good enough to fly a 737 on the mainline list, how is it that we are somehow good enough to fly an E-Jet or CRJ around that they own with their paying customers on board? It's an absurd double standard, since we are doing essentially the same job as a mainline narrow body pilot. Same speeds, same airspace, same airports, even the same routes in many cases. Glass cockpit, FMS, RVSM, autopilot, even auto throttles on some types. How is it that we are good enough to fly 76 customers at a time, but not 130?