Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
...Many do not like giving up more large RJ's; myself included, but could possibly see it as a win if there was a road map with checkpoints in the future that forced further DCI reductions, and reductions in large RJ's. This is a single faceted change that does not have multiple steps included down the road to solve the larger DCI outsourcing issue. It is sorta a one time hit and there needs to be some sort of "sunset". If this, and a one way check valve on the ratios over a two year rolling average, with a tighter cure period, I could see supporting the language.
Bingo.
I don't really care about block-hours at DCI, I care about pilot positions at Delta. It would have been nice to finally say 12500 is the floor set in the merger, you can't go below that level of staffing without reducing DCI.
Instead we gained ratios that at-best provide protection of the current level of mainline block-hours on Jan 1, 2016 after all 88 717s have been added to the fleet. I would have hoped our block hours would be significantly up at that date with all the new 717s added, that we could put in writing protections at a higher more realistic level.
If DCI is reduced (measured as Waves put it) by at least 25%, we would need a 1.92 ratio just to maintain our current level of block-hours.
Too much horse trading watered down this deal and made ALPAs effort to gain pilot ratification that much more difficult.
Had the deal been for 777s instead of 717s, one memo would have been sufficient, and it would have passed.
Cheers
George