Thats for the Delta Pilots to decide, and no one else.

 

The point of a flow down is not really to be used, but to mitigate furloughs by making them expensive. With no flow Delta furloughs an FO and has one training event when they recall the FO. With a flow to a wholly owned if they furlough the FO they are training that FO as a captain on a new air frame, putting the regional captain through downgrade, and dequaling an FO. Once the mainline FO is recalled they have to do the same process in reverse. Instead of one or two (if they downgrade a captain to fill the mainline FO spot) training events they are now looking at 6 to 8.

 

Kinda like if all Delta flying is done by Delta pilots on a single list, brilliant!

 

This took me WAY back to my days/years at Pinnacle... HA! Reminds me how much better the Mesaba peeps thought they were than Pinnacle! It also reminds me how almost ZERO NWA pilots even knew who Pinnacle was, even when we were doing 70% of their regional flying out of Detroit. It always blew my mind how out of touch they were with who was doing THEIR flying!

 

may have been that the NWA pilots weren’t too impressed with the 9E proposal to staple the Mesaba pilots for their SLI proposal. Of course, when you take into account who the presenter was....I digress.

 

Ohhhh JH, what a dismal failure. It was clear JH had no idea what he was doing and the pinnacle MEC chose him because he talked tough. Ive heard the decision to air out all the stupid proposed by Pinnacle made JH so angry and ashamed he first challenged and then begged the arbitrator to change his mind. A fact not lost on the arbitrator when it turned out JH never did his job maintaining the seniority list.

 

There are delta pilots who don’t know who endeavor is. One asked me if we were just ASA renamed. Nope...

 

NSTFS

I had a Capt asks me “what kind of RJ is that”...when I told him it was an A-220, he said “we fly those at mainline?”

 

I'm not exactly sure what part of this surprises you, especially for anyone who's been here longer than a few years.

I had a captain argue with me because I had mentioned some furloughed pilots (we had nearly 800+ furloughed at the time). He said we didn't have anyone on furlough and I was full of $4!t (which I am, but wasn't on this particular topic). We went round and round for about 15 minutes, but his final argument was that he hadn't heard about it and his buddy in the chief pilots office would have told him. I ran into him a few weeks later, and he comes up and says "you know what? You were right!", like that made my life complete or something.

Point is, a lot of pilots view this job through a very narrow lens. Unless it impacts them directly, they don't know, and don't want to know. ALPA updates get tossed and company memos ignored until CQ. I wish my personality and/or the industry in general let me tiptoe through life like that, but they're not.

 

Reminds me of the 20 somethings. If it did not happen in their lifetime (when they were age 10 or older), it did not happen. Narrow perspective in life. No learning nor sense of history.