Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
Do you really think the NMB will say: Well, they had it before, they deserve it now!?! My guess is they might consider it if it was brought up but would immediately discount it when looking at the industry as a whole today. I don't think the NMB cares what is in the past. I think they would look at the current industry situation. In their minds, industry pay has already been reset. The question is: How do we overcome this obstacle?
It wouldn't be easy. But it's infinitely harder if we too view it as a reset and don't set restoration as our objective.
If one is going to say that the NMB is an insurmountable obstacle, then one is by definition surrendering on restoration, right?
Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
I agree I would like to hear that DALPA has the goal of restoration. Would that change the way they go about trying to achieve it? Probably not.
Why would you want to hear that? I mean, if you don't believe it's possible, then does hearing it somehow make you feel better?
And even if DALPA stated that our goal is restoration, if they don't change what they're doing then the performance we've seen using that strategy hasn't produced good enough results to make the math work for restoration within the time frame that most if not all current Delta pilots have left in our careers.
Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
The current situation reminds me a lot of the post '96/pre 2001 contract time frame. It will be interesting to see what happens...
Denny
Yes, that will be interesting. But I don't hold out much hope if we have the same people, doing the same things, espousing the same philosophy as the ones we've had running DALPA for the past 8 years.
I believe that DALPA has demonstrated an extreme resistance to change. The current politicos have such a stranglehold on the way this association is run (as evidence, just look at the latest MEC Chairman recall fiasco) that I don't think DALPA can be fixed. I think it's time to try something else. Right now, DPA is the only alternative being presented. Rather than just give up and surrender (stay with DALPA), I'm willing to try (DPA).