Just a bit of subject change from DPA v. ALPA.

I for one want the uniforms left alone. Delta decides, I work for Delta period. No childish act of defiance is going to change that and when I see guys wearing what they want, well it is just plain unprofessional. What other little temper tantrums are you playing with issues you disagree with? Not going to ride the van as scheduled because you get to the airport 1: 03 before show? I am sure the list can go on.... and on...

But why are we trying to relax the rules and lower standards? Why do we want to look like regional pilots?

Here is a novel idea. We expect all DCI carriers to conform to Delta image except pilots!!! F/A's look the same, A/C look the same. Facilities and interiors look the same. So why not make the flight crews look the same as mainline pilots? The DCI pilot walking through the terminal half dressed, white raybans on backwards around his neck, with his ipod stuck in his ears dragging around a back pack with his skate board hanging out is more detrimental to the professional image than looking cool. Paying passengers may want cheap tickets but they don't want cool when it comes to pilots. When the cool looking pilot walks by our customers who are watching him or her like a fish in a bowl, and boards a Delta painted jet, then we have all lost.....Delta Air lines pilots the most.

So why lower our standards??? Why not just enforce the standards we have to work under to the DCI carriers. We pay them, we own a majority of the air craft, we set the standards. Plain fact, if the DCI carrier wants the contract then these are the terms.

Before anyone says you cant impose these standards on another contract carrier, you are wrong. In my previous job, the regional I worked for just signed a contract with Midwest express out of MKE. Everybody was happy and the upgrades were going to come fast. When it was known that Midwest Express would require blazers and hats all year round, the pilots baulked! The pilots stated, "they cant make us do any of that, we dont work for them". No compliance? No contract, no flying, no upgrades.

Most professional looking group of pilots we ever had on property.


Important note here!! I really want all of the DCI carriers to have no Delta Airlines branding, colors etc on them at all. Paying passengers should know that those employees are not DAL and not what they paid for..... Since that horse has left the barn........