Originally Posted by
3 green
It seems like that will open up a can of worms for Delta. Don't they have to make that offer to everyone if one person is given that opportunity? Seems like it could easily violate seniority if the company cherry picks who they want to offer a training bypass too.
If it isn't expressly stopping them in the PWA they are going to do it, especially because seniority is irrelevant in this matter. Just ask the pilots who held reinstatements to CA positions but were left in category as FOs with no pay protection while CR sent FOs junior to them to train as CAs in the same category for which they held reinstatements. The current language in the PWA makes no mention of seniority (nor pay protection), it merely requires mutual consent under 22.D.6.a. Enticing pilots with the awarded category pay rate is obviously a way for the Company to try and increase the "take rate" and attempt to bail themselves out of another mess caused by their beloved 365-day conversion window.