Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
Thanks for lowering expectations.... again.
Merely not dropping frequency is a loss for us when demand clearly supports more frequency. If your primary concern is to look out for Delta pilots...then how can you be OK with DAL giving it away?
The goal--"our" union's goal--should be ADDING frequency and GROWING, not ceding ground to a competitor and trying to convince us it's no big deal when we permit hub raiding from a partner. No wonder we continue to shrink and they continue massive growth. WHY IS DALPA OK WITH THIS?
Can DALPA do anything about this development? Perhaps not. But they sure shouldn't be convincing to bend over and take it.
DALPA's stance on this matter is another in a long line of utter ineptitude.
If DALPA can't do anything about AS adding routes(which they absolutely CAN'T just like DL management) then just exactly HOW are they ceding ground to a competitor? What do you expect them to do? Formally protest? And what do they protest? The marketing actions of a completely different airline? And how do we know that there is demand for more flights, simply because AS added routes? I really don't know what you expect DALPA to do. They successfully tightened the restrictions in the Alaska marketing agreement.