Originally Posted by
Timbo
I got to lose my first Capt. seat to Com Air's RJ's, so I'm pretty well aware of what happened there.
I was constantly calling the DALPA phone in 1992-3, asking why we weren't putting them (and ASA pilots) onto our seniority list. Then there was JC and the RJDC, and the rest is a sad, ugly history of how we allowed over 50% of our domestic flying to be outsourced to cheaper labor.
We are our own worst enemies.
Timbo,
You made the right call.
But who negotiated with Delta Management? JC or Capt. Giambusso? Not to pick on him specifically, but it is important to understand the order of things. Had there not been an acquisition and stripping of the assets (code and scope) without a merger ... then there would have been no RJDC.
JC gets a lot of press because of his inflammatory rhetoric, but in the scheme of things he had little power to effect his fate, or that of his pilots. At the time ALPA (Duane Woerth) absolutely forbade an express carrier even talking with mainline management.
IMHO those who do have the power have the responsibility. That would be us.