Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
Easy, the jobs of the regional pilots will not go away, they would just be absorbed into mainline where those same pilots would love to be. The answer is so obvious I don't see how you miss it.
I'm sorry it wasn't obvious to me....
I have been (and still am) under the impression that DAL likes the idea that it sets the criteria on who they hire, and controls the hiring process 100%. I don't think they would be very exited about absorbing thousands of regional pilots that haven't been through DAL's hiring process.
While ACl's comment about regional pilots "...being good enough to fly for DCI means they are good enough for DAL..." may sound good, it doesn't work for me.
I don't want to sound like Carl's parrot, but he summed it up pretty well:
Totally wrong. It means no such thing. There are backgrounds among some regional pilots that make them unhireable at Delta. If they're good enough to fly your family at DCI, it only means they're good enough to APPLY to Delta Air Lines and compete like anybody else. No back door entries to Delta by hiring on with Brand X.