Pros...decent pay for first year (monthly credits around 110 hours), very friendly training environment and a great pilot group (that is when your CA doesn’t spent the entire trip complaining, rightfully so...the old timers got hosed, and your FA complains about getting displaced out of CVG to JFK, where she spends every night sleeping with about 60 other FAs on the JFK ops room floor with “RJ” and “CRJ”, the names of the rats in there)

Cons...I Hated every single day I spent flying for that place. The management vs pilot battle made it tough, and I’m pretty sure someone high up sent a memo to all non-pilot employees in the entire Delta system to “F— with the pilots to make their life a living hell so they take concessions.” Or in my case quit and take my CL-65 type rating to SkyWest. Btw...no training agreement at ComAir. Anyway, here’s the typical day in the life of me, 20 people from the bottom (after 7 months) at the time of resignation, as a CVG CRJ FO...

Reserve life... I got called every single day I was on reserve. Not one day off in 7 months
(and after concessions you even loose a day off there, too.) Every day. In fact my record was 3 hours from the time my reserve window opened to my pager blowing up. Then you call and get put on hold for an hour. If you can check your trip online you can see what you’re doing but that doesn’t count as being notified, which is actually very nice. Show up to the airport, check in, and see your trip is different now. Now you’re sitting ready reserve for 6 hours. Spend most of that time in the trailer park smoking lounge cuz you’d rather deal with lung cancer than ComAir’s crap. About 20 minutes before your time is up you get paged...another 30 minutes on hold....you’re deadheading to ATL or JFK or DCA to sit for 4 more hours to pick up a trip to BOS. Fun. Do that, get to BOS, go to sleep, and scheduling calls you at 4am. No clue what they want because after 4 tries I rip the hotel phone out of the wall and put my cell phone on silent. Pager’s only good in the CVG area so its off anyway. Report at your assigned time morbidly curious on what’s going on. Looks like your “NEW” flight is delayed just for you, and has been for about 5 hours (welcome to Delta). So you start your next 14.5 hour duty day (ALPA contractual duty day) already 5 hours behind schedule. Plane swaps on every leg, even in odd places like PIT or CMH. Get to your next overnight – CYYZ. Sweet! CANADA! Excited to watch the National Hockey Night in Canada special you grab your suitcase and head out. “where are you going?” Asks the gate agent. “to the hotel” “but who’s taking the flight out?” “I dunno. No other crew here yet?” “no, and it’s 5 hours late” “we’re timed out...nobody told you?” “no, expletive deleted” “re-book ‘em. Thanks for choosing Delta”
Day 3...more of the same, another 14.5 hour duty day, with scheduling changes and plane swaps on every leg and every time you get into CVG you see your name lit up on the RIDS display. Go sign into Epic on one of the computers, after searching for one that 1. Works and 2. Has ink (or whatever chemical reaction prints the release.) If you’re on a 6 day stretch of reserve days, plan on being gone for 6 days. Plan on 5 overnights in a row. Plan on scheduling calling you more than your girlfriend does after a night of drinking. If you do 5 legs, plan on 5 different planes. Plan on reduced rest overnights. Too many for me to count (in only 7 months, well 5 actually flying.) And don’t let me forget to mention all of the holiday “sick” calls (over 200 sick calls last Christmas). Plan on going to some sweet places, staying in some pretty nice hotels, getting some great experience in and out of some major airports and plan on meeting some great people, too. The CVG reserve life was entirely too much for this ex 121 lineholder so I was already spoiled. I think it’s settled down a bit from what I went through (possibly because CHQ was getting a lot of Delta’s CVG flying (careful not to say “taking”)) and since ALPA told us to vote on concessions and rolled over faster than a 19 year old girl with low self esteem in the Bang Bus I think the “F- ALL PILOTS” memo has been retracted, but I don’t know. I was so miserable there I left before they cut the concession checks so I never got anything out of that anyway. They were operating in bankruptcy the whole time I was there, too. Maybe that was part of the whole experience. If you live in the Cinci or NY area you might F’n love the place! Just don’t sell yourself out trying to quench your SJS thirst. That was just my opinion of my experience of life at ComAir.