Bar, was just looking at the pics you posted and saw that you gave me a shout-out..thanks for the free press!

If I could address your points;

It frustrates me, and 1310 other DL furloughees, when you continue to blame us and ALPA for our own furlough, and yet refuse to admit that RJ captains benefitted greatly when we were replaced. I'm usually a pretty low key guy, but that loss of situational awareness requires a response.

DL pilots supported Comair as a gesture of UNITY by supporting the Comair strike and sending assessment checks. I don't have a pic of me checking the Struck Work guide while flying sideways out of CVG..but please know WE took the strike seriously and had the VISION to lift the RJ pay rates closer to mainline as the only way to prevent whipsawing.

Once again; DL pilots negotiated a no furlough clause in our contract. Since we had that clause, the threat of being REPLACED by RJ's was nullified, and we AGREED to unlimited 50 seat jets flying our pax to LIFT the entire profession.

Then 9/11 and Force Majuere..

JC and the Comair MEC refused to let DL furloughees sit in the RIGHT seat of the shiny new RJ's we had agreed to let fly in UNLIMITED numbers. You say that it's our fault for not demonstrating unity with the Comair/ASA pilots..and therefore we reap what we sowed. My point is that we had ALREADY demonstrated unity with Comair and when the &@$@ hit the fan, the gesture of UNITY was not returned in kind.

Let's move forward to today. I think you and I would agree that we need to bring ALL Delta branded flying back to mainline, regardless of acft size, and make Delta the airline of choice for professional aviators from winging to retirement. We should have just kept CPZ, stapled their list, and secured a quality feed with a quality acft for the future. But would the senior CPZ captains form an RJDC to sue for DOH, putting them in front of you? We would be reliving the good ol' Comair yrs. Or does it make sense to keep us separate, control a flow up, which effectively does the same thing?

Again.you and I want the same thing for the future. Our individual pasts dictate our individual reaction to past furloughs.