Originally Posted by liptonT

Yes and no. My available date on airlineapps was the end of July. Delta interviewed me in March and then asked if I could start early May. I then had to tell them that I couldn't start when they wanted me to due to military obligation. They asked for proof via documentation, which I provided. I heard rumor that they were burned by someone who recently went through indoc, got his seniority number, then dropped mil leave to finish out his 5 years of active duty. Perhaps that, combined with needing pilots ASAP, has caused them to be more inrerested in how people declare their availability dates. Just my $.02