Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
How do you accomplish that when Pinnacle was authorized to negotiate directly with Delta management? Pinnacle ostensibly used their scope to capture airplanes which would have been flown by other ALPA members and succeeded in modifying the Delta preferential hiring provisions to favor them. It would not surprise me to see Endeavor negotiate rates on aircraft currently flown by Delta pilots.
My point is, the Camel is in the tent and the Delta pilots were locked out of the tent. Mesabah is mostly correct on the law and like me, he learned this from counsel outside of ALPA's own echo chamber.
My solution is not only fair, it is probably the only way forward if you actually want to accomplish what you say you do.
The compromise I see is 82 seats, flown by Delta pilots, with our alter ego brothers recognized for what they are.
Does the Pinnacle/Endeavor/DAL experiment fail when half (or so) of the SSP candidates (seems to be the current average) fail to get the dangled DAL job? Will they stay as disgruntled employees with a substandard contract or go seek greener pastures as other majors begin to hire? Once the gold ring is snatched away...does it unravel?
Maybe a subject for a different thread?