Originally Posted by Check Essential

Interesting Friday Night at the fights.

A couple opinions from an observer:
1) alfaromeo is denying that the sky is blue when he tries to minimize the role that ALPA and our contractual scope language plays in Delta's fleet decisions and their other joint venture and code-share arrangements. DALPA and management have been "constructively engaged" in outsourcing for a long time now. Moak truly believe(s)(d) that RJs saved Delta. Same goes for international alliances and revenue sharing in its various forms.
ALPA has clearly been a co-conspirator in outsourcing.
I hope they've realized the error and will reverse that policy going forward.

2) Bucking Bar often speaks as if ALPA can unilaterally mix and match pilot groups and seniority lists with relative ease and management and the government will just go along with whatever the union wants to do in that regard. He makes it sound like we could all be on one list and "unity" could be instantly achieved if only the people in charge of ALPA would stop standing in the way.
The fact is that the NMB and only the NMB decides who is in which bargaining units and if management does not merge the companies involved and cooperate with combining seniority lists then it is nearly impossible for ALPA to merge the pilot groups. If ALPA hadn't killed the ASA/Comair attempt to join DALPA then management surely would have. And they'd have done it easily. The whole PID controversy and other ALPA proceedings were just an academic exercise.

And I have to agree with DALPA's decision on Compass. Theoretically, Bar is obviously correct. Unity would be great. But absent a merger, it would be completely unworkable for the same MEC to represent two different pilot groups with competing interests and management had no intention of ever merging Compass into mainline.
ALPA has significantly less power than Bucking Bar implies when it comes to achieving this elusive "unity" among the various pilot groups. Management likes their ability to whipsaw and stopping it is going to be incredibly difficult.