Originally Posted by
tennisguru
Or look at it the other way. You are at EDV and eligible to flow today, but Delta decides to hold you at EDV for a few months to keep staffing up there. Sucks to be you losing 3 months and 200+ numbers over something completely out of your hands. It's not fair or unfair either way, it's just how it is.
And I don't know why you singled out just military pilots. Literally every pilot who started class after the EDV guys were put on the list are in the same boat.
And honestly the end result is still the same, because if Delta didn't delay the EDV pilot's actual indoc dates then they would already be on property and still on the seniority list in the exact same spot.
I guess my point is that ideally they would get to go to their “intended class” and get their actual seniority number along with an employee number in my fantasy land of just moving all that flying to mainline. I get they wrote it into the LOA but let the poor people come here already. Go hire more. If they’re already hiring everyone they can then great. No complaint against the 9E guys, just annoyed at another loophole exploited. Gotta suck to have “EDV” next to your name on the AE instead of an employee number. But I don’t know - maybe they’re just happy not to go to NYC.
/rant