yep must be because I’m new and not because I look at the operation and weigh how each party is or is not involved in said operation. It is my opinion that one of these two should happen to have an equitable relationship

1) active pilots that exclusively fly delta passengers should have priority over retirees

OR

2) employees and retirees should have priority on their own metal over all active and retirees from another airline (including regionals).

if we want to say DL retirees should go ahead of active endeavor pilots on DL metal, then all active endeavor employees and retirees should go ahead of active delta employees on endeavor metal. Since currently a delta pilot can bump an endeavor employee off an endeavor flight, I don’t think it is equitable to say a delta retiree should go ahead of an active endeavor employee.

you can be as condescending and dismissive as you want, I’ve been around aviation for decades I’ve formed my opinion off tons of experience non revving on all 3 major airlines.

If you really want to get mad, we could adopt American’s policy. All active employees of American or any of their wholly owned carriers travel at the same priority determined by time of check in. a brand new envoy pilot or gate agent can bump a 35 year AA guy off an AA flight.

on a side note I like a lot about AAs non rev system and priority better than Delta’s, but WOs getting the same priority as mainline on mainline metal (and vice versa) is probably the exception to that rule.