Originally Posted by
scambo1
We all know AT was in ALPA. I guess that doesn't matter if there is a failure on some front like SLI because there is plausible deniability versus taking responsibility. How many years do you have to be an alpa carrier before alpa takes responsibility for your collective bargaining failures?
PG, Sailing, ACL, etc.
I agree completely with Scambo.
ALPA threw the TWA pilots under the bus. ALPA's (lack of) performance (with respect to the TWA pilots) was adjudicated in a court of law and the jury decided ALPA had failed the TWA pilots.
Less than a month after the verdict in the TWA DFR lawsuit ALPA again under performs for another ALPA pilot group being acquired by a non-ALPA carrier.
I am completely at a loss in trying to grasp exactly what benefit the Delta pilots get by having ALPA represent us. They failed the TWA pilots, they are failing the Air Tran pilots, and they have a track record of poor performance at Delta (IMHO).
As a "Dead-zoner" this next contract is exceedingly important for me. Why would I want a "team" that has demonstrated nothing but mediocrity representing my interests?