I'm aware of the infamous letter. The Comair MEC was arrogant and played a hand they didn't even have. The Comair MEC, however, had no power to change the seniority resignation policy of Comair management. If that were true, why wouldn't the real issue be the Delta management policy of seniority resignation in the first place? AA, UAL and many other pilot groups were told they could write any letter they needed to so as to find work and those letters would be shredded upon receipt. Only Delta said they would honor them and the DL MEC did nothing to try and change that. Additionally, DL owned ASA and CMR 100% at that time and could have dictated whatever hiring without resignation they wanted to. Yet they didn't.

Meanwhile MEC endorsed outsourcing (read that again...Delta MEC endorsed, unwaiveringly by the way, actually telling furloughed pilots the outsourced RJ's were making things better for them) saw thousands upon thousands of new DCI pilot jobs created while well over a thousand Delta pilot jobs were furloughed. Meanwhile ASA ended up taking what, a couple dozen furloughed Delta pilots out of the approximately 1500 on the street, due to a pre-existing policy they had nothing to do with, while the Delta MEC endorsed outsourcing frenzy at DCI created many thousands of new DCI pilot jobs out of thin air, guys not furloughed and about to retire were racking up their best 3 years for their FAE just in time to make a run on the bank and some guys were flying (tons of) overtime with guys on the street and we are all supposed to focus on the ignorant actions of the Comair MEC for not changing a management policy at their airline that they didn't have control over anyway even though Delta had the same policy that the Delta MEC did nothing about?