Fellow Pilots of Council 66:

As we are sure you have already learned, yesterday your MEC approved the tentative agreement for a new contract. Your reps approved this agreement because we believe that it represents a very real and significant improvement to the job security, pay, benefits, retirement, and working conditions of the Delta pilots, and it does so before the amendable date of our current contract.

Many of you have written and called us, and we appreciate your input. In some unfortunate cases, people are reacting strongly to rumors or to an incomplete or inaccurate understanding of what the TA contains. This is a natural byproduct of the absence of information during the voting process. Now that the voting is complete, the MEC will be providing all the information that you will need to make an informed decision. Additionally, your NY reps will be communicating with you as much as possible, both in the lounge and with future e-mails and newsletters.

In the meantime, we ask you to please consider that 31 rational and (hopefully!) intelligent people just spent seven long and intense days studying and debating the merits of this TA before voting on it; it is important that you provide the same due diligence.

How you vote is entirely up to you. But please make your decision only after you take the time to thoroughly familiarize yourself with the contents of the TA.

We will be in touch shortly, and we will see you in the lounge. Please feel free to call or write to us with any questions that you have about the TA. We will give you the facts, without spin. Our goal is to make sure you have all the information you need to make an informed and reasoned business decision.

Make no mistake—this is your union, this is your contract, this is your decision.