Originally Posted by sailingfun

The MEC was not out of touch

Not according to the two dozen pilots I spoke with over the last 48hrs... let's just agree to disagree.

There were a lot of former NW pilots who flew and liked the trips and that feedback went to the MEC via reps in those bases.

Define a lot... again, see above... plus reference the loud outcry.

I just talked with a NW guy who is mad they removed them.

"A" NW guy? Doesn't seem very statistically significant.


When CDO's went public it became obvious that overall the pilot group by a substantial margin did not want them and they were removed

This is a large part of the problem... very few line pilots new about the SDPs until the last second... we came way too close to eating this one.