Originally Posted by
WhiskeyDelta
Give him a break. He's venting. Would you want to wait 21 months at our current hiring rate? That's roughly 2000+ number loss in seniority.
Despite the historic market for pilots, not everyone has job offers from the other legacies and majors. ALPA did negotiate this for Endeavor so he is certainly within his right to point his frustration at them. Despite that I would give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's still grateful to come to Delta until he publicly states otherwise.
That's the agreement the pilots at Endeavor agreed to. If they didn't like it they should have said no. If he wants to go earlier, apply off the street. It maybe tougher, but there are plenty of off the street pilots passing interviews and there have been plenty of former Endeavor pilots who went to Compass and have already started at Delta through their own interview at Delta.
The reason he may wait 21 months, is because a ton more senior pilots at Endeavor are going before him. He doesn't get to leap frog them. If it was a flow like Compass, he may have to wait even longer since all of the senior pilots above him would get a crack to go before. Do you think the most junior flow pilots at Compass were upset because they left 5 years after the first group got to go? No, it was in seniority per the agreement they signed onto.