Originally Posted by
Wasatch Phantom
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..........
........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.
I curious why you would think DAL management would care about the pilots they hire. Sure
flight management might feel exactly as you do but, where does
any flight managements (opinion) sit with the real power at an airline, at the boardroom level and with the bean counters.
This is not a knock at Delta but the whole industry, at least that part which has contracted out part of it flying to regional airlines. Delta is comfortable enough painting other airlines aircraft (or its own and leasing them), wipsawing them against each other to create the cheapest contract, and creating a (false) impression to the consumer of providing a produce it has out sourced. If your management is comfortable putting my family on a regional, crewed by regional pilots, using your companies flight numbers and terminal facilities, why would it have a problem with the same pilots flying a larger jet??