Originally Posted by
sailingfun
In the end however Delta has ran a better airline by a big margin than our competitors.
Maybe on the business side since we are actually making a small profit in Q4, but on the pilot side of the house, I'm going to have to disagree.
Hindsight being 20/20 and all....
UAL: didn't retiree too many people...didn't sh!t can two fleets....didn't kick 1800 pilots to unqualified status: Result? When the recovery happened, they went right to hiring 200 a month. I don't remember UAL having a holiday meltdown.
DL: retired too many people from all departments....sh!t canned two entire flees required lots of full courses for new categories.....kicked 1800 pilots to UNAcorn status requiring a mix of SRQ, NRQ, and Full IQ. Result? Training events required far exceed capability and while we stated we need 200 a month new hires, we haven't hit it yet...UAL's been doing it for almost 6 months.