Putting aside the rancid stench of entitlement that your post reeks of, and the audible eye rolls from everyone reading it, this is also factually incorrect.

If Delta hires 1,000 pilots next year, whether the hiring mins are high or low is irrelevant. Delta will have no trouble attracting 1,000 pilots to fill its new hire classes. So if you have high time and you’re at Delta, your seniority will increase at a rate of 1,000 next year regardless of the hiring mins. Your seniority does not increase slower. Still adds 1,000 underneath you.

No one is taking delight in other people having a tough time. However, for those of us that have to fly with brand new FOs regularly, there is a sense of relief that the person next to you in the flight deck has some real world experience under their belt.

Those are accurate hiring number projections for Delta in 2025 by the way. 600 of them will be in the first 4 months and then we’ll stop for the summer again. And again, the idea that 1,000 hires is “slow” or a “tough time” for prospective hires is absolutely laughable to those of us who had to play the game back through COVID, Great Recession, age 65, 9-11, blah blah blah. Someone else above advised you to know your audience and read the room. I would second this advice, I can’t stress that enough.