Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
If you voted YES to the TA, then you voted to shrink mainline. Whether you voted to shrink DCI won't be known until that ratio is measured for the first time in January 2014.
It has everything to do with our bargaining agent. It was that bargaining agent that threw a fait accompli in front of our reps, then went on a one-sided sales campaign. Apathetic line pilots didn't do that. Our bargaining agent did.
Agreed. But there's no doubt that DALPA follows management's military chain of command. That's part of the problem.
Fix the military chain of command mentality, fix the culture. Militaristic mentalities in business fail. Just because its what you've only known, doesn't mean it's the only way. Too many in our union just don't get that.
Carl
Mainline has shrunk - but I think the 2014 measurement should be applied apples to apples with the RJ count. If you compare actual fleet totals there has been a noticeable decrease in total DCI airframes. Did you mean shrinking mainline - like less pilots on the seniority list? I don't mind looking forward to attrition over a 30 year career.
Apathetic line pilots did nothing to stop ALPA from what they were doing. If I thought they were wrong, I would have tried to stop them myself. But 200 pilots blowing up their reps email address isn't going to fix anything when the reps can call upon the silent majority for help. And yeah yeah. I know. 5100 cards. Whatever
The military chain of command mentality needs to go. It's not what I've always known. I've known a far better way to run an airline - and I'm starting to see it here, but I'm tired of feeling like a grunt. I'm a highly skilled member of the only labor group at this company that can turn an airplane into cash by flying it (and good on TechOps for fixing them for money)