Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

You can keep writing it it & I'll keep reminding you, ALPA merger policy at the time was status quo. By paycheck, or equipment, it would have been a staple. The Comair MEC was procedurally correct in following policy which stipulated a commitment to a merger BEFORE SLI openers.

The history does show Comair never even made an SLI opener, nor did ASA.

You say you heard crew room hearsay. I heard it straight from my MEC Chairman. Further there is a paper record of everything that happened before, during and after the 2000 BOD meeting which fired the starter's pistol on the race to the bottom. Refer to one scrap of paper, any, even the back of a napkin, which documents a DOH demand. IT DOES NOT EXIST!

The only purpose of this DOH lie was to scare Delta pilots and justify the separation which enabled scope sales. The "Comair demanded DOH" myth is tired and debunked. You harm your credibility by repeating it.

But, you do raise a valid point if you were to re-state that the outcome today is much less certain than it was a decade ago. During the intervening years, our status quo positions have moved. The general move away from status quo benchmarks also makes the outcome less certain. After all, who had ever heard of pull & plug?