Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
I don't think I am misunderstanding the issue. When I first entered this conversation it was to ask: What changes were made to the DPWA as a result of the agreement between Delta Management and the Pinnacle pilots? As far as I can tell..................nothing.
As far as the issue you state above, I DO think it was a bad precedent that another pilot group negotiated with Delta Management. Now do I think that our contract was violated by this separate agreement? No, I don't. Our contract allows for a certain percentage of RJ flying up to 76 seats by other companies. You are characterizing it as DL flying when, contractually, we have allowed this flying to be outsourced for years and the Pinnacle guys negotiated for their share of it.
Denny
I'm not sure if our contract guarantees us to be the only pilot group negotiating with DL mgmt... would be interesting to see.
The precedent set is a terrible one, but it's not surprising that Moak would take another MEC chair by the hand and go whistling right on by DALPA. Moak does what Moak wants, and has shown time and again he will do just that.
The issue is that we are supposedly in "scope recovery" and supposedly whittling down the amount of RJs- hopefully more in C2015. Now 9E has in their ALPA pilot contract a guaranteed not insignificant amount of DL jumbo RJs for 7 years. That is a very bad thing.