Originally Posted by
iaflyer
Hey Carl - question: How does the discussion about our next contract go with the big airplane people you fly with and have breakfast with in Narita? I think the (relative) new-hires and smaller airplanes are pretty well represented here on APC, but I don't know of any other 330 and 744 Captain on here.
Are they thinking about Scope (big airplane or RJ scope), pay rates, work rules, hotter flight attendants, or retirement? What's important to you guys?
Most of the guys I fly with have C2K pay restoration as their top priority. But the very next priority (and it is extremely close to the first priority) is stopping the scope erosion and ending the joint ventures. A lot of my compadres really do understand the extreme threat of scope erosion. Unfortunately for DALPA, they also understand DALPA's refusal to defend our current scope. It's one of THE main reasons the DPA just surpassed 3,025 cards.
Carl