Originally Posted by
cni187
Just had a guy in the jumpseat today that said this exact same thing. He was a dude involved in ALPA stuff but quit cuz he got fed up. Said DPA is around 3000 now but that we shouldn't split up before a contract negotiation
Rumor. Speculation.
No "ALPA dude" will spout numbers (well anyone in a capacity to have a direct effect on neg. (LEC/MEC/NC).
Once again.....DALPA has not polled the pilots yet........It is coming this summer/early fall.....
Ask anyone who was around for the C2K contract survey when it came out!!!!!
There is almost 18 months until the Amendable date, and there are 3 Legacy airlines who are already in talks. When(if) one of those 3 inks a new deal that is above the current SWA deal, all of the people who wanted DALPA to make a public campaign of "We want SWA" will look like fools for setting the bar too low. Now you go into negotiations and have hurt the leverage of the NC when the Company goes "You just said for a year that you wanted SWA, here it is...." when AA or UCAL may have exceeded that by 5-10-15%!!!!!