Originally Posted by
havick
It looks deliberately vague. Looks more like a way to keep their regionals staffed than a means to get candidates in to mainline UAL.
All of these schemes exist as a way to draw pilots to the major Airline's regional feeders with with a carrot. Delta, United, etc. are not seriously worried about not having qualified applicants, They are, however, concerned about their feeders' ability to staff their airplanes with cheap labor. United and Delta's business model is absolutely dependent on a feeder network operated at rock bottom prices. This is why you have seen in the last 30 years, more and more "mainline" flying transferred to regional feeders, and those partners flying larger and larger airplanes. This is not about supplying pilots to the mainline, this is about trying to entice pilots to work for the feeders without the feeders increasing pay to be competitive in the pilot hiring market.