Originally Posted by
The Juice
You are delusional. I again suggest you read the award. Whenever Bloch makes mention of a specific airlines "fence" number, he doesn't use the term pre merger. The above applies to the fence number, hence no pre merger. The idea that "technically Mesaba is now Pinnacle pilots" have nothing to do with the Bloch award. Nice try though. Using your logic the phrase "Pinnacle must maintain 95 CRJ CA spots" would be for Mesaba and Pinnacle pilots since, as you said, "Mesaba pilots are Pinnacle pilots"
I see. What you are saying makes sense now.
The Bloch award makes a clear distinction of who is a "Colgan," "Mesaba" or "Pinnacle," and has nothing to do with your above mentioned slap at unity amongst the group.
Slap at unity? There has been no unity from day 1 of the 3-way negotiations. Any hint of unity broke initially last April when Mesaba filed a dispute AFTER hearings were closed regarding the 9E DOH issue. THat didn't go well. Then the quotas came out and it reflected horrendous staffing numbers on the Pinnacle side from the old June 2010 staffing model, and then the 9E guys were downgraded so Mesaba and Colgan pilots could take left seats. That didn't bring any unity. And NOW that entire fleets are getting parked, it's every group for itself fighting to protect as many seats as they can for their own group. Face reality: there is no unity to be had ever since this three-way happened.
I'm sure Hunter will formulate a strong argument. Maybe you and him should team up and formulate your argument and try and strengthen it up for Bloch
Ha! Good luck with that. Now that the livelihood of senior 9E pilots is affected, watch a 200% effort from the 9E side of things. Before, there wasn't really any clarification or fight when the junior side got screwed in unfair quota numbers and the Saab fence. I never heard a peep since the Aug 2011 update that the clarification is requsted from Bloch and he hasn't answered. That was also in regards to the Saab captain fence-off for Pinnacle pilots. How much you wanna bet, in cold cash, that THIS time, in regards to THIS issue with the CRJ-900 quotas, you WILL hear a clarification from Bloch?
