Originally Posted by Pilotdude3407

Love this post. I starting feeling like I was the only one having a pity party over here. (I don't mean that in a hateful way). Three parts that stick out:

1.) App in for 7+yrs. I'm with you. The poster above puts his app in and within a month gets an invite but we are just sitting over here twiddling our thumbs for years.

2.) "Just become an LCA..." Such an ignorant statement from people that know how this industry works. Yeah, I'm not an LCA because I chose not to be! I personally want to be one and have almost every LCA in my base willing to go to bat for me but the company will never let me be one because of being a union committee chairman. So yeah...volunteer vs LCA.

3.) The "I don't care where I go" attitude. These people are getting pulled up and they couldn't care less. Me...Delta has been my whole life's work. I literally have routed everything I have ever done to be a Delta pilot. Unfortunately for me, I listened to some advice early on from some Delta management people and did what they said and it has come back to bite me. (Not going to an aviation university because "I just needed a 4yr degree in anything".) In their defense, 10yrs ago there hiring wasn't like it was now. I am a legacy and up until 2012, legacy's were held really high and most early classes were filled with them. Now, they have removed the legacy option from the app and it really doesn't get you anywhere.