Originally Posted by
Southerner
I didn't say it was a good idea. The way it was explained to me, Delta wants pilots who are flexible, and who will fly the way Delta tells them to. They believe that very experienced captains are less likely to conform. They probably have some metric that indicates that, since they have an entire team that tracks ALL metrics of the new hires.
Didn't say that you did (: I could go on about this for hours...all I will say is I find that very hard to believe. Just imagine this, Pilot A has 15,000 hours flying for UAL, then UAL shuts down, so using this logic DAL wouldn't hire him???