Originally Posted by ShyGuy

You said it wasn’t a seniority cake game, but you literally wrote it goes down the list - presumably in order. So it is, for the next guy who didn’t have a GS before. That is still respecting seniority.


What you are referring to is a self-inflicted wound at Delta. For years they turned their noses at candidates because it was not a pilots market. But after letting something like 2-3k retire during the Covid pandemic, they came out in a huge shortage situation. Now they find themselves having to premium their way out of the mess. It isn’t just Delta.


You keep putting words in my mouth. I did not say 20-22k doesn’t “make ends meet.” Or that AS rate is plenty and why bother have it meet other rates. These assertions are simply not true. Nor did I say to rely on premium to make ends meet.


I hope people enjoy this phase. It won’t last. Delta itself, more than half the seniority list now has been hired since Jan 2014, which means 50%+ of their list doesn’t even have 10 calendar years on property. Let that sink in. This decade was the pilot shortage decade. Covid ruined things in 2020-2021 but they picked right back up.


Enjoy another ~3-5 yrs of this and after that it is holy stagnation at the majors. Those 20s and 30s something hires are going to be ahead of you and everyone else for a loooooooong time to come.