Originally Posted by bigdaddie

I too have regional roots; it thrills me to see this model collapsing. When I was a Captain at a regional carrier making the big sub-pentagonial pay, I didn't for once think "I've made it." I don't understand how having these highly integrated marketing agreements (read AK) or outsourcing flying that is just inside the max range of our smallest aircraft, while supporting the overhead of numerous business entities, makes sense from an overall business perspective. I can understand the business model in the short term, read: make the most money for our stockholders NOW. CE Woolman would be ****ed off at this point. He would enter in frame of RA's pre-departure speech and slap him across the face. Now, I like RA, but you can't make a case for Delta employees being the best and "you all come back now" attitude while all the time trying to outsource our flying.

If this TA has ONE section 1 concession, I'm a NO; I don't care if we have 100% dos increase. I want improvements for me, don't get me wrong, but I want improvements for my kids and JungleBus's kids in this industry as well. it's up to us to stop it my friends.

BD