Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

UGBSM,

The "brand scope" concept came (I think) from NWA, not Comair or Dan Ford. In any event we should not be competing with separate divisions of our own Company for our flying.

As for competing with other companies, of course, that's capitalism.

While most pilots are union members, up and until recently most pilots had not been union members at their prior occupation. Going forward our new hires will be experienced union members.

In fact, if you look around the Delta MEC offices today, I think it is accurate to say that pilots with union experience from their job before Delta are more active* in representative and administrative positions than those who did not come from a union background.

We can reasonably expect former union members to have a greater interest in, and appreciation for, the representative process than those who came from a background where they were unfamiliar with unions, or had a negative perception of organized labor.

* defined as a percentage compared to the overall demographics of the Delta pilot group.