Originally Posted by
Scoop
This is a totally losing proposition for the DAL Pilots. Well written piece, by a great guy but it does not change the fact that we are being hosed.
But according to the report the Alaska high Value customers are extremely loyal to Alaska. Yeah, no ****. How can we expect the DAL customers to show the same kind of loyalty when domestically there is a 50% chance our customers won't even fly on DAL. Burn these folks a few times with "connection service" and of course they are going to have zero loyalty to DAL.
Hell, it seems to me management would rather be a a travel agency or a "system" then an airline. I guess management is just admitting that if we competed head to head with Alaska we would lose. But I thought we were the premeir business airline in the world? Yeah, I forgot only on routes that we have zero competition.
But AS had guys on furlough - DAL Pilots are so much better off - didn't you see the growth numbers in the propaganda, errr, I mean the report. Yeah but the numbers that stand out are the 25 firm growth aircraft orders for Alaska - as we continue to park aircraft and get some replacement MD-90s. If we were growing proportionally to Alaska we would have almost 200 "growth" aircraft on order. Pretty depressing.
Scoop
^^^^^ Agreed 100%. While I was reading this report, I had to keep scrolling to the top to remember whether it came from management or our union. It's management's job to take the leeway our PWA gives them and make a profit. It's our union's job to improve our pay, QOL, etc and prevent management from taking advantage of us. I don't need my union selling me on the profitability of something that keeps my QOL from improving.
I'm not sure I was here when the hard sell came from ALPA on "Trust us, RJs will be good for Delta and thus they will be good for you." But, I bet it read A LOT like this codeshare analysis piece.
Hopefully everyone noticed how much farther this thing could go before coming anywhere near the allowed PWA limits. I remember seeing 5-30% seats where the contract allows 50%. We had better hope they don't get widebodies.