Originally Posted by Bigflya

Interesting rumor being put out by the DGS guys in the ATL training center. Not sure if its hit these boards yet. DAL may get SOC on-time but with some conditions. The biggest being that the pilots will not be able to cross fleet until everyone goes through a recurrent with a syllabus heavily ephasizing CRM. Supposedly the Feds are all over the training facility and see that North and South cockpits are run two different ways. That disturbs them but they may or may not have enough power to stop the train. Also, since the syllabus has to be created it probably would not start until June, the month the new annual recurrent syllabus is started. That means a few things: 1)No joint bid for 1.5 yrs and 2) When the co moves metal it will be only N/S guys bidding their "former" metal. I do not see the co objecting too much to this because it will drastically cut the training costs that could occur from a joint post-SOC bid. Supposedly a full initial is $60k per pilot. Just another of a long line of rumors but it is as believable as others.