Question for former NW Airlinkers
 

Just curious - please only answer this poll if you work for Pinnacle, Mesaba, or Compass

Pilots hate change.

Seemed with NWA you knew more of what was going to happen flying wise, hasnt exactly been the smoothest ride since the merger.

I think the biggest complaint is flying out of every base and having schedules that are far less efficient than the "old way".

plus the benefits got worse.

I just think about all the time under the NWA banner and it only took 1 year under Delta to screw it all up...

That's just Delta doing what Delta does!

Deadhead especially was better under NWA. Not sure if it's just 9E that's gotten screwed up, but under NWA, you get a PNR, you go online, you check in, print your boarding pass and you're done. Under Delta, you can't check in on-line, by the time you get your PNR there are no seats left and you can't print out your boarding pass. Getting it at a kiosk is hit or miss (granted this could be the "excellent" crew schedulers we've got inputing the information. I can't remember how many times they've misspelled my last name, and it's right in front of them), and the instructions our company gave us to check in at the kiosk are wrong. Which pretty much leaves us going to the gate agent for everything. 90% of the time they are NOT happy to see us, especially when they're oversold and we don't have seats. Times I was on "standby" under NWA: zero. Times under Delta: 4 times this month.

I really like when checking in as a Nonrev with the NWA system. When I check in for a flight that's mostly open. I can pick my seat and not have to deal with a gate agent. That's one of the things I miss the most. I must say that I like the new WF2 system much better. Overall some are good and some are not

WF2 is MUCH better than waiting for the gate agent to input numbers....except they forget, went on break and now no one can find them. Honestly, I think we would have wound up with something like that even if the merger never happened. We were burning too much gas in the run up pads waiting on numbers....