OK, thanks. If you're ready to flow...
Originally Posted by
JungleBus
You know, that thought actually occurred to me on day one. I thought "you know, if scope really was better like ALPA is saying, that kinda makes the mediocre pay raises defensible." But if ALPA really considered themselves giving up negotiating capital for this section 1, they got taken to the cleaners. The changes to section 1 simply allow management to do what they sorely wanted and needed to do to make outsourcing continue to work: replace old inefficient airframes with efficient new ones. It makes DCI cheaper, and once again makes mainline pilots the choice of last resort.
I'll be glad to stipulate we're probably grossly overpaying for Section1 improvements, but it's hard to tell how much the most important section is worth. You're forgetting (/not aware yet) that this TA does a lot of cleaning up in aisle 1, not just the DCI end.
Regardless, the mechanism for dumping 50-seaters is contingent upon deals with DCI carriers and lessors, and those entities aren't going to let Delta out of contracts without some
quid pro quo. Now, Bombardier would probably bend over backwards to trade in 50-seaters for C-Series at mainline, but Skywest wouldn't.
You can be livid all day long that we're funding and facilitating the trade of 50-seaters, and you can argue we're not getting paid enough, but you can't argue the company can simply upgauge the fleet without this, or some similar maneuver. You also have to acknowledge they're [deleted] if we do nothing... but we're just as [deleted] if we do nothing. Hence the marginal rates.
I stand by the post above, but not too close, because of all the shiIIing...
Hope you get to move to Delta soon.
Regards,
Sink r8.