LJ,

There was a guy on our DALPA Forum who took the initiative to call your SWAPA President and discuss this pay issue. Your guy was adamant that the numbers stated in your Air Tran welcome packet are absolutely accurate. He also said that DPA had contacted SWAPA, but ALPA had not.

Like you said, with such an important contract and so much ground needed to be made up for us, I can't for the life of me understand why DALPA wouldn't be all over this! Instead, they try to sweep it under the rug and we get big DALPA supporters like Sailingfun and Alfa Romeo trying to dispute SWAPA's data and tout the MIT/government data source. Something is rotten in Denmark (actually, Herndon and Virginia Ave) and it doesn't bode well for our upcoming negotiations.

BTW, thank you for coming here and attempting to set the record straight. You are my new BFF!