Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Can someone explain why we are all spun up over Republic Air Lines Holdings? If they did not perform the flying some other third party vendor would fill the breach. The flying would not come back to us. We dorked that up when we divested Compass.
If it were up to me, I'd rather change the agreement that is making Alaska the fastest growing Air Carrier on our Continent.
The most important next step is to get our MEC on board with the idea that Delta pilots can operate the E-Jet TYPE, to get our group on board with Delta pilots performing Delta flying (not just the flying that requires 767's or larger).
Unless we "own" the flying, what is the point?
This is a sincere question, maybe one of you can 'splain it.
Bar,
I do not see guys thinking one or the other. In fact they are stating fix the loophole that allows RJET/F9 to operate the way they do. Fix the AS Code Share stuff and make all future JV's, Codes Shares et al require DALPA's approval, sunset the DCI flying and not just hope to hold a line but demand loud and clear that flying is not for sale here.
Like we have said, all of this is very important and important to the careers of every Delta Pilot.
Bar, technically we do have the right to fly all of the flying but are allowing a lot of it to be flown off of our list.