fwiw, I think we're the right people. People forget a commercial air carrier by FAA rules only requires 1 employee. A pilot. An airline on the scale of our operation we're not the only ones required nor are we the brains behind the operation. Frankly we are a unionized group of over 10,000 pilots turning screws on an assembly line with over 12,000 in total.

But if any of one or two of us, and this goes for mechanics as well, turn that screw wrong...

You're front line employees matter. And beyond safety its important I think for some to remember that it is our noses that are to the grindstone so chances are we may know who that grindstone is doing?

The one thing Delta has always had a reputation for was that people mattered. I may be bias, but as a pilot and even pre employment here I always thought that was pilot driven. So whatever has happened in the past and whatever course some may have plotted to change that, so be it, we don't have to give in.