Few notes,
MSY is attractive? ever been?
second, Delta had opening in MSY, BNA, MCI for sure, however they also had openings in hard to fill stations like LGA, JFK, and LAX also.
Delta's system is you get basically whatever you get. So AMTs who have been with DL(NW) for many moons got sent to LGA/JFK as wells as those "attractive cities".
However, I also know of at least one ASM who got one of the AMT slots in MCI.
Delta's system is jacked up. That ASM not only took at spot from an AMT in DTW, I also know of ASMs with higher time than the one who made AMT in MCI who all put in for a MCI slot and didn't get it. One got a spot in MSP, one is at LGA and one is still stuck in ATL. You call that fair, I call it horse poop.
but its easy to talk about it when your a has been.........