March 3rd class? Honestly bro, and I'm not being a jerk, but I could see your class being put on hold if something shakes out between now and the time you start.
Interesting times for sure. A little TOO interesting for a dude trying to start class with a new company.
Gup
Delta just last week increased training to 100 a month for March. No matter how you slice it there are airplanes that are coming on the property right now that need pilots. The intergration if all this goes through wont be worked out for many months. Your assessment would normaly be correct but in this scenario where both airlines have many airframes coming on the property and aggresively growing international flying (requires 32 pilots per airplane) isnt as risky (not saying there isnt risk) as a standard merger of two pilot groups with no immediate deliveries.