Originally Posted by
emma dog
Well, for some of this it's also the fact that DL STILL hasn't published a weather waiver. How dumb is that??? If they can shunt passengers out of the system even for a couple of days, they'd have helped create slack. So they're experiencing IRROPS without giving their teams all of the tools to address it.
There is no where to shunt them to on the weekend before the 4th. The Delta pilot contract is now also extremely restrictive on rerouting pilots. Pilots who are waiving the contract to help are catching a lot of grief from other pilots.