Originally Posted by
brakechatter
Not even close, brother. There is a correct version, and an incorrect version. It's more like apples meet oranges.
Although you know that I agree with your restorative flying sentence. Seems as if I heard that same idea in a couple of recent campaigns
Brake,
You're wrong, as is your time line. Were any of your new hire FO sources on any Committees, or even employed in 1999-2000? Most of the first hand sources are now dead, or retired.
Anything done by a committee, or coalition, or legal effort generates documentation. With regard to this subject, there are boxes. While there is an honest debate we can make about the merits of "operational integration," the resurrection of the Comair bogeyman is a non sequitur. It just did not happen.
The RJDC was a response to ALPA locking ASA & Comair out of scope negotiations concerning the flying they performed permitted under our PWA. That did not happen until after the denial of the PID and after the ratification of contract 2000.
They would have had no reason to retain Counsel prior to those events taking place, which would have put their creation at very late 2001 or early 2002.
Originally Posted by
brakechatter
Why would there be documentation? COMAIR and ASA were just following the process, right? There had to be a PID prior to documentation, right?
These "inexperienced" MECs, with the lawyers and the RJDC watching closely, needed the commitment of a PID prior to documenting their fair version of the list. After all, they were just following the checklist. Once the commitment of a PID came down, and it was correctly decided that napkins bearing the Delta logo do NOT constitute operational integration, I
suspect it would have been quite obvious just what the "MECs" had in mind with regards to fair integration. As we have seen, nobody has any
idea just what an arbitrator will do-something some people, NOT to
include CG and MP, have told me that this is exactly what the "MECs", the RJDC, and the RJDC lawyers were counting on.
Interesting how you would even want to associate with Delta pilots, let alone have the desire to become one of us.
When people tell you these stories, you can point out how that would require the "RJDC" to some how know the future four years in advance and have the money to retain "lawyers." Nobody is that smart.