Originally Posted by
Gunfighter
If this is the case we have a severe ego problem with management thinking those pilots will wait for DL instead of leaving for AA, UA, SWA, JetBlue, Frontier, Spirit, Allegiant, etc..
The same thing is happening with AA and their wholly owneds. It probably works as intend for some of the regional pilot group, keeping guys there until they flow, but it's ****ed off a lot more, and a lot of people are considering Delta and United that weren't previously.