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.
Bucking, I agree with most of what you say. But "we" never divested Compass. "We" represented their pilots, but we never owned their flying. If we had, there wouldn't have been a need to have Compass. The NWA pilots would have simply done that. And as you point out, unless we own the flying, what's the point.