Originally Posted by
Wasatch Phantom
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.
I hope I don't give anyone in management a heart attack, but those pilots are flying Delta passengers every day. Unless Delta management takes the rather cynical view that killing passengers in groups of 50,70, or 76 is okay, but not in groups of 124, 150, etc. then they have already come to acknowledgment that these pilots are good enough to fly our passengers.
When we merged, there were pilots at NW that failed the DL interview process. There were pilots at DL that failed the NW interview process. Big deal. Management certainly got over that hurdle, they may just have to suck up a little more.