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Old 09-24-2011 | 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by DeadHead
Personally, I felt the tone was more towards well "what are you willing to give up" as opposed to "what are looking for".

Do we, as a pilot group, even get to see any type of feedback from the survey? How many pilots participated? Where the majority of the pilot group fell on the issues?

I can't see any harm in releasing this to the pilot group, if anything it might send a strong united message to both ALPA and Management.
It is not necessarily that I saw that per se. (but that is a good observation) The questions where you had to choose whether something was absolutely critical, merely critical, critical.. etc (TIC) seemed a bit managing to me. All these issues are absolutely critical IMHO. We have been on a BK contract for 10+ years now!! Almost half of my career. The problem that I see is the DALPA leadership will tout our existing contract as being industry leading in many ways, which it probably is. But that doesn't acknowledge the fact that I just intimated: we have been on a BK contract for 10+ years. Restoration (whatever that means); no, improvements on a galactic scale are absolutely paramount. And I don't know about you, but I cannot realistically rank seven items in a particular order of importance. After number 2, I am just filling it in so I can move on. I have no earthly idea whether something is 6th most important in my mind.. no wait.. it is actually 5th more important... really? I guess in a way, a survey is not really necessary. I mean, does the leadership really need a poll to determine what is/is not important to the pilot group at this point? Fire away ya'll.