Originally Posted by
shiznit
True, they(SWA) do RECENTLY. Historically this has NOT been the case as mentioned ad nauseum.
Why are you done with ALPA? You don't know the opener. For the last time DALPA doesn't either, contract surveys have not been filled out by the pilots yet.
If DALPA put out a "wish list"/opener, minimum standard publication/press release right now; there are MANY posters here (including me) that would be ****ed at DALPA for making statements on behalf of the pilot group without even asking the pilots what they want first!!
DALPA cannot and will not publish, advertise, release to the media a fictitious set of demands when they don't know what the real desires of the pilots are!
(On a personal note: I look forward to the survey, all you DPA'ers who think we need "SWA pay" are managing my expectations, I have much higher standards than that.)
The SWA rally cry is low-balling ourselves at this point. The last full Sec. 6 contract DAL signed (C2K)was a record breaker, 1996 sucked, 1991 was good, etc.
Relax, don't shoot before you've aimed....
The questions everyone should be asking themselves are: Why isn't the pilot survey out now? Why is DALPA "educating" us on how to see things through DALPA/management's eyes BEFORE the survey comes out? Why isn't DALPA "educating" us on how far behind we are BEFORE the survey comes out?
It's because they're praying to lower our expectations so that our surveys will produce the weak opener that they intend to proffer. If our surveys show that we want more, they will proffer the lower opener anyway and simply lie about what the survey results were. "We'd love to show you the survey data, but we wouldn't want management to see it."
Carl