If the company tried to furlough from one side while the other side hired, due to timeing on the single op certificate, this would be very bad...

At the very least there should be a LOA from Dalpa, very soon to include or new brothers and sisters, to paper hire those pilots at the bottom of the Delta list and then return them to their previous place on the list when the SOC is granted. Yes, for a very short period they would actuall be a new hire at Delta, pre-combined, but that would be a small price to pay...

Actually, it could work out fairly well for those guys, girls because they would have access to the Pre-integrated bases and aircraft.

My idea...

Slinky