Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

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