Originally Posted by
sailingfun
There are also those in management who have a philosophical bias against letting a small percentage of pilots stay home with full pay in some cases for years. I am told this was a issue RA himself has. We have a few guys who by a combination of pre month bidding and swaps only work when they go to the sim for currency every 90 days.
Total BS. This is about giving away jobs and dividing the pilot group. Nothing more. If they really were concerned about a "small percentage of pilots" you could easily make a limit of once per year, then you're bypassed to the next FO. But that's not what they did, because it wasn't their concern. Their concern was reducing the need for Delta pilots at Delta, while dividing the pilots who remain.
Carl