Originally Posted by
Bartender
IOE times are increasing significantly. Some of the "affirmative action hiring" candidates are very low time. Lowering the standards? You are bypassing very high time DCI pilots because of some very strange theories on "standards". Experience is not valued at Delta.
They are preemptively pushing OE to 75 hours for someone making captain under a year. It is not due to a lack of performance... it is them being proactive and making sure they do it right. Anyone making captain in under a year gets that amount of OE... be it a 2500 hour fighter jock or a 20,000 hour guy coming from another airline.