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Delta international wide body flying is being systematically outsourced and DALPA seems to be overjoyed with their great success in facilitating that process.
What the he|| am I missing?
It seems to me these Joint Ventures and codeshares are a disaster.
The union says the company doesn't need our permission to do this stuff and its wonderful that we are able to achieve some protections. Excuse me but it puts our stamp of approval on the elimination of our jobs. It makes no sense at all. We should be fighting these things with all our strength.
Somebody please explain to me why the US airline representing over 80% of the combined populations of our two countries only gets 25% of the flying?
Right. Maybe the PA issue isn't the issue of the week...
If I read correctly, they can increase their flying 50%, and we need to add 0. They can add seven weekly frequencies. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess there is one more city pair the JV wants to serve.
So the enhanced protection of the TA is that we get to negotiate adequate production balances, even though the company isn't prevented from entering the JV anyway, and in any case the largest airline by far is letting the smallest by far keep the lion's share of the flying, unless of course they want more, which is fine. Am I reading this right?
Shirley, this is the quo, and maybe we have to buy VA(merica), and as a quid we all get 100% of VA(tlantic)'s 747's and A340's, and the existing VA pilots get to run the valet parking at Lot 7, while fly to LHR.
Otherwise, this makes no sense.