Originally Posted by NeverFlexTO

Wrong, how does DL lose money if a 9E employees family can’t get somewhere vs a retiree? No cost to Delta at all! I’d argue again that pilots choose to commute, they shouldn’t be rewarded with higher priority because of personal choices they make.

Originally Posted by Shadre Reevis

For example, 9E pilot may have to send the kids to Grandma's while he's gone flying Delta passengers around for 5 days and the wife is on a business trip. My assumption is that retirees don't have those kinds of constraints. What does it cost Delta when those kids get bumped and the 9E pilot has to stay home?