Originally Posted by ATCsaidDoWhat

One has to first remember that ALPA is NOT a union...it's an "association" of individual unions that never adapted to the post deregulation world. Everyone continued to operate under the "I have mine, pull up the ladder" mindset that was focused on personal greed and not true trade unionism, where you truly support your fellow members and in doing so, gain strength and leverage in the industry.

Just ask any EAL pilot who got hired by DAL when DAL took all those EAL jets and gates. You won't find any because DAL's MEC fought against implementing the ALPA merger and fragmentation policy. Ask them about the help they extended to their regional partner pilots for preferential interviews or hiring over the years. Nope, nothing there.

But ask them if the Comair MEC screwed them. You'll get a different story. It's OK for them to screw over others, but they should be bowed down to.

Wait!! It was a different time and a different MEC!!

OK, then let's see what THIS Delta MEC is made of. Let's see them stand up, put the past behind them and go to management and DEMAND that the Comair pilots be given first right of hire.

Don't hold your breath. They're too busy pulling up the ladder.

BTW...history will show that the only MEC and pilot group that had the integrity to go to management and insist on first right of interview and hire should go to EAL pilots?

The UAL MEC under Rick Dubinsky. Several hundred were hired. And they didn't take ONE Eastern airplane.