Originally Posted by
crewdawg
What's with Delta is they are hiring lots of highly qualified applicants, they have tons of them. They can't hire every single "highly qualified" applicant out there. I was impressed with all of my fellow new hires both military and civilian...even my fellow, lowly 28-32 year old hires.
They should go to wherever they get the first class date. Then, if they get offers elsewhere, they have a decision to make. You can leave one major to go to another, don't fall into the sunk cost fallacy that you can't leave once you've picked a job. Two of AAL classmates left after 1-1.5 years to go to FedEx, one of my classmates had left UAL after 9 months to come to AAL. There are people leaving every airline to go to another right now. If they really want Delta, then they'll leave when offered a class date.
I brought it up because a friend of mine was flying with a LCA recently and he was made privy to an email that said the company was having trouble getting enough pilots of the caliber they wanted to come on board. The concern was that the candidates were choosing other airlines. I can understand to an extent why, especially when we had CJOs waiting 200+ days to get on property and our competitors have better pay and work rules. And apparently Delta is trying to get them as quickly as possible because they've drained the pool and want CJOs to get in class around two weeks after the interview. Which makes me wonder if AirlineApps needs to tweak their software, cuz the fact that FedEx, SWA, and United are getting an invite out to these guys within two weeks of their app being submitted while Delta dithers doesn't add up. To each their own I guess. For one of these guys Delta is an afterthought so it's not a big deal to him, and in fact he's not even concerned about it. I'm just wondering why D hasn't shown interest while these other competitors are chomping at the bit to get him on board. No big deal.