Originally Posted by FourPutt

Actually that is not true, a Delta recruiter has told my friend (who is also recruiter) that they have different tiers for airlines such as XJT is rated as a tier 1 airline where as Gojet is a tier 3 airline. You would get more app points as an XJT pilot than you would from Gojet (doesn't mean you couldn't get hired as a GJ pilot) but they do care where you come from based on whatever data they have collected. Ironically XJT is a higher rated airline than Spirit or Frontier so a lateral move would hurt your chances in that case. Gojet and Mesa were rated as tier 3 airlines (bc of their hiring practices). Delta does care about the quality of airline you came from, not some fly by night operation that hires tier 1 airline washouts over the phone and then gives them 20 sims and 100 hrs IOE. I've heard United has a similar point system as well.