Originally Posted by
Mesabah
I can see how people are confused, but the SSP/hiring commitment is a metering program for management. It came from management, not the union. According to Delta's hiring policies, without the SSP, they would have to interview all the 9E pilots that applied, and take them before anyone off the street. Delta selects employee's for interview in this order: Internal Delta - Delta subsidiaries - off the street.
You're making it seem like DL would be handcuffed by some technicality and forced to institude a 100% flow of only PCL (EDV now?) pilots before they could hire a single OTS pilot. There's no way that's even close to being the case, and even if it was, it would only be because of the company's own policies, which it could (and would) change in about 2 seconds.
DL didn't need the SSP to grant relief from itself. That's just silly.