Originally Posted by Scoop

Johnson,

The Alaska code-share is touted by DALPA as being beneficial to the DAL Pilot group as a whole. While I am very skeptical about this, even if it were true, it is seriously and disproportionately harming the LAX 737 Pilots.

The LAX 737 category basically lost almost all of our North-South West coast flying. The end result is our bid package is atrocious. 35% of our rotations are 4 day trips with red-eyes that pay between 17 and 21 hours.

LAX has 45 of these uber-crappy rotations.
SLC has 11.
CVG has 4.

The LAX category is much smaller than both of those bases.

So basically DALPA is saying: The code-share with Alaska is good. What they are not saying is that the pain is all being felt in one category - LAX 737.

Is this how a union is supposed to act?

How would guys in any other category feel is DALPA allowed management to carve out exceptions to our code share/DCI agreement that was basically all shouldered by one category? This is exactly what is happening to the LAX 737 guys.


So yes, George has a good reason to concentrate on the Alaska code share.


Scoop