Originally Posted by
captainv
A lot of us felt that way. But JC and the RJDC pretty much poisoned that well. It'd be great if the entire pilot group wasn't painted with that brush, but I understand why it is. As for me, I was in my 3rd week of indoc when JC wrote his letter (Boomer is of similar vintage, I believe). And so, I send out resumes with 8.5 years at CMR, a whopping 300 RJ PIC, and watch 5-year RJ captains at other DCI regionals move on. It is what it is.
Agreed, my understanding is that the JC letter was sent out without any briefing or input from the line pilots. However, it also was not done in a vacume. The RJDC had support from somewhere and it wasnt Icahn or Lorenzo, it was from pilots.
It is a convoluted mess to be sure. The interesting thing tho is that Comair pilots have been flying DAL pax for many years. DAL has access to all of the checkride data, sick leave data and personnel files. My hope is that it is on that sort of rational basis that DAL extends interviews and job offers to Comair pilots and not just using the broad brush Comair poisoned well approach. But hey, I'm just one guy.