Originally Posted by
gloopy
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.
They are not going to change their hiring policy, which is standard among all fortune 500 companies, over a subsidiary. If you go with the SSP it solves a lot of headaches, and butthurt.