Originally Posted by
finis72
If a contract passes by 90% I'm looking for another job, chapter7 is just around the corner.Sunsetting DCI is a pipe dream, sounds good on Internet web boards but the reality is as long as we are a hub and spoke carrier we will have DCI. As long as we are a global carrier we will have code sharing and JV's. It is easy to pick a TA apart especially with the half truths and mis information on the web. What is hard to do is come up with a viable plan in the aftermath of a no vote. You say DL will come back to the table and base it on what a rep said or what you conjecture to be the reason, I say for many reasons they won't. I don't think this TA will pass, for me it is not a big deal either way. I am not being mean spirited when I say I'm at the top of the food chain and therefor a yes or no vote will not affect my QOL. I do believe that a no vote and the ramifications of a no vote will impact the junior pilots. You think some of the intra DL memos are propaganda, I say they fired a shot across our bows and they are not going to back down, they can't now politically. Again I hope you are right but I'll wager you are wrong.
Finis, I think this TA will pass, despite my own personal no vote. All the comments I'm hearing from the yes side essentially boil down to, "we'd better accept what the company offers or else". Well, if that is the case, then the company was too generous, they could have saved more money with a 3-3-3 or 1-1-1.
I had 777A LCA in my jumpseat a couple of days ago talking about a meeting with RA. The pilot contract wasn't even an afterthought in RA's mind in the meeting, with all of the other grand plans he has on deck now & in the future. Honestly if RA didn't give a hoot about this labor force then he wouldn't have expended so much effort in this "7-month-early-50-seat-trade-for-76-seats-coupled-with-a-717-incentive-and-promise-of-hiring.". I expect the last thing we'll hear about prior to the vote closing out is a new widebody order 'pending approval of the new pilot TA'.
I am a junior dude and will feel the impact either way, as I do in every single AE.
Oh, and I think Carl is at the top of the food chain...his ride is bigger!
