Originally Posted by
Scoop
Hockey,
I was furloughed from DAL when JC penned the "letter." At the same time ASA was hiring DAL guys - without requiring resignation. I say we should learn from our mistakes and also never forget that the Comair Pilot group tried to leverage the misfortunes of the junior DAL Pilots into political clout. I do however, make a distinction between Pilot groups and individual Pilots. Judging by his posts I think Boomer is the kind of guy we would like to have around here.
Even though I was very unhappy with the Comair Pilot groups antics and have no love for the Comair Pilots as a group- I will continue to judge individuals individually. Sounds like Boomer was not even on board when all this went down.
Boomer - Hang in there. Try to use your former military contacts to get your foot in the door.
Scoop
People are missing an unusual wrinkle of the ASA position on concurrent seniority. ... I can not recall the date, but there was a SLOA which allowed Delta bid restricted Second Officers who did not meet Delta's minimum standards to come to ASA, while holding Delta seniority to train and get experience so that they could upgrade to a flying seat at Delta mainline. There were a small handful of Delta instructors who came to ASA, then went back as mainline pilots. I do not know if any of these used the Second Officer SLOA, or not (or if anyone used it). So it was not exactly a happy accident ... DALPA had a negotiated agreement which preceded the furloughs.
Comair did not have that history. Gloopy is right that the Delta MEC could have negotiated directly with Delta to force the issue on Delta's subsidiaries. One can only assume the reasons why this did not happen.
Regardless of how it came to pass, we were happy to see Delta pilots at ASA. They are excellent pilots and gentlemen who never complained, although they had plenty of justification.