Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
You guys' political deafness is stunning. Please keep it up. Please.
Only the most hard core ALPA sycophant would even try to spin this as a DPA crime. You guys keep forgetting that this will be won or lost by the currently undecided. My prediction is that the undecided are face palming right now at the embarrassing spin of trying to blame the victim. Keep it up boys. You're geniuses.
Carl
You mean spin like this? Another portion of last Friday's DPA Crew Van News (Speculation) update. Bold is mine again.
ITEM 2: ALPA Attack Package
This attack packet probably cost around $20 each of your dues dollars to produce. It included a credit card thumb drive that contains unknown files that could have a variety of intents. The heart of the package is an MEC update that is chock full of misinformation. As this information is being put directly into the hands of many line pilots, DPA is compelled to answer the claims ALPA made. We have provided the update below with a DPA Rebuttal inserted after EVERY ALPA claim that you will find both informative and useful. We recommend you print out the 12 page document and carry it with you to fight the incorrect information ALPA is spreading.
The packets
actually cost a little over $4 each to produce. I notice how Tim and Jerry just inflated that about 450% to suit their needs in this little blurb. In all fairness they didn't know how far off they were, so they just guessed what it "probably" cost.
Back to the packet though - The majority of that cost is the flash card that includes a lot of good information that our pilots will need going forward - namely the new Scheduling Reference Handbook (formerly known as When Scheduling Calls) that will be extremely useful on January 1st when the new 117 rules take effect.
I would just be pulling a Tim and guessing here, but I doubt the $4 flash card is a whole lot more expensive than the printing/shipping/v-file stuffing/dead trees associated with distributing hard copies of all of the numerous documents that were included on the drive. Some might call this getting with the times. The "ALPA Attack Packet" is actually part of a secret plan (by the secret police) to provide current/helpful information to the Delta pilots so we can all do our part to ensure the PWA is being followed.
NEXT:
The second bolded sentence is a thinly veiled insinuation (you like to refer to this sort of thing as spin) that ALPA might be placing some sinister files on the drive to do.....what exactly???
Is this the type of spin you're talking about? Maybe they contracted with the "hacker" to create a super worm to: [Letyourimaginationrunwild]
Insert your favorite conspiracy theory here [/Letyourimaginationrunwild]
Like I said GMAFB
