Originally Posted by gloopy

Then by that logic, AA is locked in and guaranteed to absolutely dominate the airline industry, to the possible extent of liquidating their competitors because they have mastered the flow while others have thrown away the keys to the kingdom by not embracing it.

I'm really not seeing that TBH.



Grand impugnors? What in the world are you talking about?

In any case, you think DL should adopt a flow. And if they don't, they might go out of business because they will not be able to staff flights (only AA and maybe JB? will survive the coming flowpocalypse apparently). Fine. But even if they go that route (and they've said recently that they absolutely will not) it would really just be for future new hires. And why wouldn't it be, if the main reason for doing it was to recruit where all other means have failed?

There is no way they'd address a recruitment crisis (even if a flow decision was the fulcrum for that anyway, which I disagree with) by giving seniority list order, starting from the top, including once or multiple turned down pilots guaranteed seniority numbers. In fact, it would be even more beneficial to recruitment if future "golden child" new hires got to skip over pilots already there.

You wouldn't want that, would you?