Originally Posted by
Lifeisgood
that’s a great suggestion!
Besides p-56 gumm and safety guy who else is ”lots of management pilots who can’t hold captain”?
We crossed an important threshold where we are hiring from outside directly into fltops management without terms and it was never the case at Delta before. One had to earn it. Not sure what to think about it.
i think a decent thing to do for them is to stay FOs until they can hold left seat systemwide on the jet they are flying.
Its happened several times in the past. In 1986 we had a probationary new hire handling several top line projects for the company. A computer wis kid was hired who I don’t think ever flew the line a bit later.