Originally Posted by
madmax757
I was still a kid but Pan Am - sold their pacific operations to United. The FO from the Tenerife accident Actually retired a UAL pilot. Other airlines took other bits and pieces but did not take pilots. Didn’t Delta get a lot of Europe slots ?
Delta got Europe and the Airbus A300 from Pan Am when then provided them a line of credit just prior to them shutting down. Pan Am came back to Delta for another line of line credit to avoid a shut down and Delta said no. Only Pan Am Airbus pilots ended up on the seniority list at Delta while everyone left over ended up on the street including those senior to the Airbus pilots…