Originally Posted by
brakechatter
Back to the topic. If the rumors are true, the company is telling us that possibly 15% of our current block hours are going away. If this is their negotiating end point, I wonder where their starting point was. Even more, they will be possibly be flown by a Japanese company that wants to put foreign pilots in the control seats. I have a basic ethical problem with Delta code sharing on flights that were formerly flown by Delta pilots, who are now flown by expats that are not Delta pilots. Of course, that is just speculation, but not out of the realm of reasonable possibility given press releases and other obtainable information.
That is exactly what they're
saying. The company is
saying that it is based on economics and keeping faith with their vision of capacity discipline. Great. They're management, we're pilots. They get to make those decisions. Pull 15% out of NRT, and end the NRT code share. Win-win. We begin to chip away at our massive outsourcing problem in Section 1, and the company gets to discipline its capacity.
But what does our union do? The best of all worlds
for management - allow them to keep NRT code share while reducing NRT capacity (flown by Delta pilots). But it's the worst of all worlds for the Delta pilot.
Carl