Originally Posted by
fisherpilot
I'm actually surprised this hasn't got the rank and file in an uproar. I try not to comment too much on these types of situations since I am only a Delta wannabe, but I figured that would have caused some very big concerns with all DAL Pilots. Maybe I think it is a big deal when in fact it isn't..... I don't know.
The majority of Delta pilots are looking at their end game and figuring "this does not involve me." ALPA is trading altitude for airspeed to pander to this majority. Scope sales are called bargaining leverage. As long as pay increases, nobody cares what happens to the guy in the right seat.
(this isn't universal of course, but it amazed me how open my Captain on this last rotation was about what matters and what doesn't ... even to the point of the aircraft he flies going away, he'd just bid the ER. Biggest issue to him would be having to go to school ... zero craps given ... but the Air France JV "mattered")
But there are some good Reps and good folks in the MEC. Contract 2012 could have been much worse. I think the compromise reached in section one was a win / win. (disclaimer I voted no because I did not want to breathe new life into DCI and the 717 appears to be at best an interim move ... I am concerned about 2015 with Pinnacle at the table and and the C Series on the table)
There will be a marked political change in "what matters" when we start hiring pilots who already have a decade's experience in ALPA. As with our 2007 hires, most will box considerably above their weight simply because only a few pilots nearing the end of their career are willing to be as engaged as those on this web board are.