Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
If a company has more fully qualified applicants than they have job openings, some of them must be "passed over". A CP once told me that everybody HR sent in to his office for an interview was fully qualified, so from that group he picked "the ones I would most enjoy sitting next to for four days."
This is the problem with the 2 class system set up by ALPA and the mainline. DAL had jobs available for all pilots to flow into DAL after the buyout but mearly because of unequal treatment between mainlines and regionals a mainlines job gets protected like NWA and Western Airlines pilots but a regional will not. It's OK to lower regional pilots pay for higher pay and profit sharing mainline (like giving up scope) but not give equal status for the same work performed.