Originally Posted by
nwa757
You guys are terrible. Let's dismount from the high horse and open up our closed minds and look at the facts.
1) We vote to outsource flying
2) It's ok because we get a pay raise
3) Our passengers travel on Pinnacle/Compass/Skywest and 7+ other outsourced carriers and thats ok, if my pay goes up
4) Butttt....... It's not ok if they are a Delta pilot.
5) Half of these guys are getting put on the street due to a manufactured bankruptcy (by us)
6) Mainline pilots are taking nice big pay raises (we should) while guys at the bottom on poverty level wages are taking pay cuts, all while flying in the same system.
Getting off the high horse works pretty well for unity. Who are we to think we are so much better off than another pilot who flies the same passengers on the same tickets.
So by that logic we should just outsource more flying to give more opportunities to the poor RJ pilots? Maybe we should give them a seniority agreement too. Let a 98 9E CA slot in between a couple 07 DAL hires.
This isn't about poor RJ pilots - this is about Delta side stepping DALPA, and therefore compromising our bargaining capital in the future.
I may be their equals as a pilot, but once I'm here, I should expect that my company will support ME before it supports another pilot group. And right now, DAL, nor DALPA is supporting me.