I like that idea. I think they are realizing they cannot park the 200's as fast as they wanted as they do not want to lose that market. I would also assume that they were not figuring that so many pilots would have left so soon and fast from Endeavor.
I think somewhere in their warped minds at Delta they thought they could rape our contract and offer a joke of a career program in the guise of a guaranteed interview while forecasting hiring and class sizes to eliminate that program costing them nothing-not even a broken promise. I think they will start stepping up our benefits to try and get people to stay to keep the operation just good enough to make huge money and not let it fall apart because of staffing issues.
First they offered the guaranteed interview, then it will be the performance based bonus checks which will be a joke, then a profit sharing that will be nothing like the Delta one as Delta can funnel as much money from Endeavor as they want and call it "management expenses (see Mesaba airlines and MAIR Holdings example), then they will offer 30 more CRJ 900's so that the FO's will all see an upgrade and stay and thus they will be able to squeeze enough time out of the 200 in order to get the 900's and 717's on line. I also suspect that the first offer for the 30 more CRJ 900's will have "new hire" only bonus's attached to them.
Little does Delta know that there are hundreds (1500 or more even?) at Endeavor who will not wait for Delta and a promise of an interview in 5+ years when the standards can change the moment an Endeavor pilots walks in the door (predicated on how well Endeavor is staffed at the time too i might add).