Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The opener can and should reflect the contract surveys put out by the pilots. If it does not then you have a valid point. You might however be quite surprised if you were allowed to read those surveys. When alone and thinking pilots tend to put down what they feel is reasonable and achievable.
Here is the problem that hopefully DALPA has solved or is working on: How are we line pilots supposed to believe the true results of the contract survey? Yeah...I know...it will be an outside company tallying the results and deriving statistical data...(paid for by whom?) Sorry for being skeptical...but...I will go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe, just maybe... it could be just a minor CONFLICT OF INTEREST to have DALPA tell us what the majority of us want?
I think a better barometer is to see what the opener is... and see if the opener causes the DPA website to crash due to overwhelming requests to download and send off cards....or not!?? Either way...that will really determine whether pilots feel their survey results were well-represented or fixed.
With exception to the DALPA guys...and a few other "complete the mission types" (CTM types) I have not heard anyone say they are willing to accept anything less that SWA; day one for MD88! It is frustrating to read some of the threads on the DALPA forum that suggest we will have to trade the bottom 1500 of the seniority list for these kind of gains! Crazy...but even more scary; it is coming from DALPA guys and not the usual koolaid drinking CTM types!