Originally Posted by
Trip7
I respect your perspective. To me this is the beginning of the next phase of Delta's rise. After creating a robust domestic network over the past 10 years that resulted in Delta leading the entire globe in pilot hiring, big opportunity to exists in the international markets. Competitors wiped out and a glut of Widebodies are available for cheap. Delta continues to receive 330 and 359 deliveries. With Delta WB growth over the next few years I wouldn't be surprised to see new hires going to the 350, or 2007 or later hires on the 350/330/765 A postions. The future is bright, and it's a wonderful time to be a Delta pilot. I believe the Scope language will reflect that
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I appreciate your optimism, but our history doesn’t reflect the idea of large scale growth of international flying. Delta has shown with its billions invested into foreign carriers that it would rather have the lower paid crews of JV partners do the heavy lifting while we share in the revenue. I doubt very much that they would optimistically tout this agreement if they didn’t think it would benefit the company, which by definition almost assuredly means we pilots, once again, do not.