Originally Posted by
FLY6584
Subscribed. I'm trying to decide if I'm better off staying at Southwest and driving to work or leaving for Delta and commuting for the next 34 years of my life. Moving to a Delta base is not an option.
How long would it take a new hire today to hold the right seat of a wide body and have weekends/most holidays off at Delta? Widebody pay and days off look nice, but weekends and holidays off are more important to me so I'm curious with the lack of WB growth at Delta how long would it take a new hire to see the right and left seat of a WB with a good schedule?
If, as you said in another post, you don't want to fly international nor move to a Delta base, why on earth would you leave SWA? You lose seniority to become a commuter for what will effectively become a domestic only airline feeding the great Skyteam (is that kinda like the SkyNet from Terminator?).
SWA has good pay rates now, with an amendable contract and one can only hope that the new contract is better. Right now, I'm having a hard time telling anyone who wants to fly international, that Delta is the best airline. United has a lot of WB airframes and has a better growth potential from the retirement perspective (or so I've been told).
The sky is not falling but you might want to ask why we're losing new hires.