Originally Posted by
wmupilot85
Fine, if it would make you happy....
Fleet age is a useless number. Guess no one wants to go to Delta because they fly those old MD-88's.
We've picked up additional block hours for Delta in August and September. We will only take on the flying that we can staff. When we continue to tell people not to come here, it hurts the company and yourself even more.
Every airline has senior pilot groups within them. We may be senior, but it doesn't harm us from getting additional or keeping current flying. Delta rate reset is done, with favorable terms.
But yet flight benefits that are better than other companies. With the exception of wholly owned airlines, ours are better. Skywest and us have much better Delta benefits than the other regionals, except Endeavour.
But go ahead and continue to lower the profession by scaring people away from here with doom and gloom, and shove them off to other crap hole operators.
Definitely sound like a senior maybe lifer type. Remember everyone's perspective is different depending on one's view. The bottom half or possibly two thirds of the list is probably frustrated by better movement at other places. While you just want to protect what you already have. Kinda selfish if you ask me. Those extra block hours are temporary for August and September as Delta is dealing with replacing the Shuttle lift out east. And you fail to mention Express Jets reduced presence in Detroit to SkyWest and GoJet. How can you in good conscience tell people that everything will be grand and wonderful if you sugar coat everything and step up recruiting efforts? SkyWest is going to be SkyWest. I'm not sure why you can't see that