Originally Posted by
CVG767A
As I said, I've just been curious as to your background. You've all but admitted that you're not a Delta pilot. Furthermore, I'm still unconvinced that you're a pilot at all. Oh well. It's your right to not answer me.
This board is not a place for me to defend or justify my thoughts, or to convince anyone that they should be thinking like me. I'm on here to gather information. Usually, I'm looking for rumors. Since the TA was released, I'm here looking at interpretations of various contract sections, with an emphasis on potential loopholes. I see a lot of good in this contract, as well as several things I don't like; in the end I may decide that the good outweighs the bad, and vote for this thing.
I don't think anyone looking at this TA considers it enough of a slam dunk to not only vote yes, but to encourage others to do so. I'm certainly in that camp; I'm happy to let every Delta pilot decide for themselves. You, on the other hand, are clearly an outsider, yet seem to be encouraging Delta pilots to vote against this TA. That's easy for you to do; you don't have to live under the resulting contract.
That's ok if you don't think I'm an airline pilot. For some reason if I said who I work for you probably wouldn't believe that either. Not sure what it would take and it doesn't bother me either way. I find it interesting that people seem to have more of a problem of me not saying who I work for than the message I'm talking about. (specifically outsourcing)
I wouldn't beat around the bush and not admit that I think you guys should vote this down for the sole reason of allowing more 76 seat airplanes out there. For along time people have always countered me when I bring up scope erosion as a thing of bankruptcy or bad contracts and yet Delta may offer up more 76 seaters in a time when the airline is talking about very large profits. Has your Union even/ever offered up what it would cost to bring those extra 76 seaters on property or on the flip side, how much more will you make by allowing those to be whipsawed at the regionals?
I think it is a very naive statement to think you (delta) are the only ones that have to live under the resulting contract. Every regional pilot has to live under the contracts that Delta, United, Northwest, Continental, American and USAirways has signed over the last 20 years in regards to scope. Just look how the majors have shrunk and the regionals have exploded over that time frame and honestly tell me that you (the majors) are the only ones that have to live with that resulting contract.