Originally Posted by ThreeStripe (Post 2418055)

Delta prefers these young, inexperienced pilots so they can brainwash them. Plain and simple. It's the only reason they would take them over more experience and qualified candidates.

Originally Posted by GuppyPuppy (Post 2418206)

Not true! They take inexperienced pilots at Delta so they won't jump ship to Jetblue! ;)

Gup

Originally Posted by full of luv (Post 2417835)

LCA I recently flew with told the story about a newhire on the narrow body fleet in ATL. Said new-hire was let go during IOE for supposedly blowing off walk-arounds. When confronted, said pilot said " I was a captain at my regional for over 10 yrs, and non-flying pilot always did the walk-arounds."

LCA supposedly says "well culture here at Delta is that Copilot does walkaround unless pre-arranged with the Captain, but in the absence of an arrangement, copilot walks"

Apparently new hire didn't think that was appropriate and wanted to start "changing culture". According to LCA, said new hire is no longer with Delta (could have been multiple factors as one supposes if a newhire really takes that stance, probably going to have other "culture" issues with the company).

Originally Posted by Flyby1206 (Post 2410336)

Very true, we are on track for 4000+ pilots by 2020

Originally Posted by ShyGuy (Post 2418276)

You mean 7000 pilots by 2020 ;)

Originally Posted by Flyby1206 (Post 2418282)

Boooooom!!! Lets hope it happens that fast, our west coast plans are looking pretty ugly lately.

Originally Posted by GuppyPuppy (Post 2418879)

I heard Fresno will be announced as a hub on 9/15!

Gup

Originally Posted by WhiteHammer (Post 2411308)

Where have you been? They have hired about 2K each in the past 3 years. Most of Delta's new hires are in their 20's.