Originally Posted by 76drvr

That's because "navel gazing" is easy. Actually improving the pay and job security of pilots is much more difficult. Lots of navel gazing at APA and other carriers, just no contract improvements.

The light weights focus on lint, the real reps focus on our contract and add a billion dollars to it and increased staffing by over 1,000 pilots through the duration of our contract.

According to Delta's SEC filing, the mainline fleet will be at 796 aircraft by the end of 2015. A critical component was our TA moving jobs from DCI to the mainline. I appreciate the hard work of the real reps and committee members that are making that happen. The lint pickers, well, they'll always just stare at their navel.