Sailing,

So, what you are saying is ALPA left the fate of another thousand or so ASA pilots and the fates of more than a thousand soon to be furloughed Delta pilots in the hands of the Comair MEC Chairman? Because he is alleged to have made an impolitic demand 50% of Delta's flying got outsourced?

The problem with our MEC's revisionist history is that it makes no logical sense. Worse, it makes our MEC and our Chairmen in particular look like impotent fools (when I know they are not ... they are smart, very smart, men).

Better to simply state the truth, "hell no, nobody wanted it then and we don't want it now." Better to be honest and admit "we got what we wanted" is a whole lot more confidence inspiring than alleging "we tried and failed."

Without naming names, it is time to retire this gentleman's work from 2000. It does not serve the purpose of the Delta MEC, or the Delta pilots in our current time. Continuing these fabrications only causes cognitive dissonance that the DPA rationalizes by blaming a fabricated conflict of interest within ALPA. You do get that this blaming the Comair pilots for everything is what gives rise to the DPA, right?

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I still like my statement to my yard guy: " I can not pay you $75 to mow my yard because Comair pilots might get Date of Hire." I tell my two year old "No more Ice Cream, if I gave you ice cream the Comair pilots might get Date of Hire" My wife tells me "No more sex tonight because ... ." If the NWA pilots couldn't get DOH, I don't think we had a whole hell of a lot to fear from Comair.