Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
I agree with almost everything you say. We definitely need to hold the line on Scope and what you describe will most likely come true. But, DALPA is grieving the Delta Air Elite violation. I do think DALPA should "press to test" on the Republic situation but, unfortunately, the writing seems to be on the wall there. I, personally, am not yet at the point of giving up on them. I try to look on the half full side but it is becoming more difficult!
Denny
Delta Air Elite is a violation of our contract. Republic holdings is something you don't like but not a violation of the contract. Even if it were a violation and we won in the grievance process it would not have any major impact on pilot manning at Delta. Arbitrators are always sensitive to the operations of the airlines. They would give management a time frame to come into compliance with their ruling. Probably 12 months or so. Management would simply move all those RJ's to other carriers. It would take them a matter of days to rehire outsourced lift. They would have to end up paying out a bunch of cash to Republic to cancel the contract however the airframes would still be flying for Delta without Delta pilots.