Originally Posted by
Sink r8
I think the Delta pilots made some critical mistakes along the way, but you're probably drifting into some serious revisionism here. My impression is that we tried to reach out to the regional groups, mostly CMR/ASA at the time, and got the finger. This was just before my time... so I can't completely comment on the Delta pilots at the time, anymore than you can, but I don't think you can look at this without factoring in the RJDC and people like Lawson.
Amen to that.
Sink,
Actually, I am fighting revisionism by telling it as it was.
The RJDC and Lawson's missives were
reactions to the 2000 ALPA Board of Directors meeting where the ASA / Comair PID was denied. The reaction came after the action. Obviously, if the ASA & Comair guys had been merged all of that would be Delta's flying and they would be Delta pilots. There would have been no RJDC, or Lawson.
None the less, pilots today don't understand why our MEC is against recapture. My post is intended to explain why and explain that there is a logical basis for their actions. They wanted to get rid of B Scale, which is laudable.