Originally Posted by Raptor

I'm a FedEx pilot and just enjoy browsing the forums--so I'm not trying to troll this. But, I'm curious about this inability to view openers at Delta. At FedEx our contract openers are available for all the FedEx pilots to see. Since we are ALPA too, I don't think there is any policy against having contract opening positions published? After all, the company gets these openers so why shouldn't the pilots too? I don't understand why initial positions aren't available to the Delta pilots? Can anyone tell me why this is so?

Once negotiations begin however, we don't get any specific information on the negotiations other that what sections they are bargaining this session, if there's progress on a section, which sections are essentially complete, etc. We get some information on big items that are in contention, but that's it until we see a TA for a vote.