Originally Posted by
jules11
The animosity between mainline and Endeavor gets clearer and clearer by the day. We're only different enough on paper to barely be considered a different company.
I understand that retirees put in a lot of work for the company during their tenure but it's incredibly frustrating to be trying to go to work only to have the jumpseat occupied and the cabin filled with everyone but you because you weren't high enough on the standby list.
I was once in a position to help a retiree get on a flight by taking the jumpseat but after hearing him complain to his friend about the flight benefits of subsidiaries, do you think I did that? No. Am I a better person for it? No. Is this the type of environment that the sentiment that we at Endeavor don't deserve as much as mainline employees even though we fly 800+ Delta Connection flights a day to feed mainline? Yes.
I don't know about you personally, but I have a hunch that most pilots working at Endeavor and who read this forum probably want to be hired at Delta some day. Oddly enough, those people who think this is a good idea are trading a few years of convenience (where you'd be PS'd to work anyway if you followed the letter of the law) for an entire retirement's worth of nonrev travel priority. Talk about walking over a dollar to pick up a dime.