Originally Posted by Lighteningspeed

I don't know why you are so bent out of shape over Mesaba flowthru that has not even started but all your assumptions are completely wrong. You sound downright bitter.

FYI, the first 45 that will flowthru in 2010 have all been at Mesaba for at least 14 years with close to 10,000 pic turbine time. many with thousands of hours in Avros and CRJ900s. You can't hardly call Avros and CRJ900s small little regional jets. At any case heavy jet time is not a requirement for getting hired at DAL. Never has been. Otherwise DAL would not have hired hundreds of ERJ 145 and CRJ200 pilots from ExpressJet and ASA. I know few who had barely over 3 years total at their respective regionals. As for more qualified furloghed pilots from legacy carriers, if you mean UAL pilots, I know majority of them were hired on at UAL from regionals like SkyWest, etc. So they only had regional flying experience when they were hired. I also know for a fact that UAL hired females and former male interns with less than 700 hours total and the biggest they have flown before getting on with UAL was a Seminole. I have my squadron buddy with tactical fighter time out on the street since 2001 while those same people mentioned above are holding lines at UAL.

If DAL hires in August everyone will have a share shake of the pie because Mesaba is only entitled to 9 per class and Compass only takes up 20 per month. DAL is planning to hire 300 in 2010 so that still leaves 155 open slots for you to compete for. DAL is probably going to hire in 2011 also. I find it ironic people like you don't complain about flowthru when furloughs are imminent but when there is even a whiff of hiring, you immediately start attacking the pilot group who had no say so in the implementation of the flowthru program.

I respectfully recommend that you take a more positive attitude should you get invited to interview with DAL otherwise your negative and bitterness will show thru during your interview. Good luck to your career. I mean it sincerely.