Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
First, I have great respect for your union leadership at Endeavor. You guys have had to endure an incompetent management group and a restructuring industry that led to a painful bankruptcy. Many union leaders would have gone the populist route and just hurled insults while watching their company disintegrate. You had some guys that made some really hard decisions and continue to make hard decisions.
Alfa, ALPA bankrupted 9E, not management. When ALPA forced Colgan onto one list, against Delta management's wishes, Delta was off the hook for paying for the increased costs of the merger. Delta management knew what would happen, we were setup to fail, so they could dump the 200.
I have already had two of my flights cancel this month due to lack of a second pilot. We have to park a massive amount of jets this fall. We have 1800 pilots on the list, but only 1300 are active, and we are losing 50-60 a month. We need about 900 pilots to staff the CRJ900's, once below that number, they go straight from the Bombardier factory to the desert.