Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
If you are correct and Delta's labor negotiations are none of our business (even when ALPA Brothers are involved) then you advocate the DPA's representational model of exclusion, not the inclusive unifying model ALPA was founded on. What is your choice? How we administer our union is our political choice. What say you?
Exclusion is not the DPA's representational model, it truly isn't. It is however the DPA's corporate branding model. Allow me to explain. If Delta decides they want small aircraft service to feed hubs from the likes of Compass or Endeavor, etc...great. Be inclusive. Merge/buy those companies and make them all Delta pilots. But do NOT sell tickets at Delta to fly passengers on aircraft painted in Delta colors by non-Delta pilots.
On the question of who flies the corporate brand, DPA is definitely exclusionary to its core. On the question of wanting pilots to become Delta pilots (and representing them as Delta pilots), we are inclusive to our core.
Carl