Originally Posted by
Reroute
Not much need to quote your non responsive response, since so little of it is germane to the central question, so much of it empty rhetoric. So take the tin foil hat off for a second and focus.
There was a C20 resolution championed by their reps presented to the MEC asking for reinstatement of illegals. (best practices, popular with senior pilots etc.)
A significant number of pilots asking for illegals on a web based survey.
On the other hand, there was apparently a number of pilots who wrote their reps asking that there not be CDO's.
With these conflicting data points
; what's wrong with asking the group as a whole using a scientifically valid survey?
You KNOW that the
C20 resolution that failed at the regular March 2010 MEC meeting was not the genesis of the MEC direction in August 2013.
You also KNOW that the direction was given by the majority of the Reps in Aug 2013 after having been briefed by the Scheduling Committee that this was an option to try to reduce the number of days worked by pilots in light of the then upcoming FAR 117.
CDO's were seen as a unique option to work less days for a premium and to minimize the 30 hour layovers due to FAR117. The LOA language became controversial after it did not meet the direction given and the pilots learned the details of the proposed language.
Why are you choosing to deliberately misrepresent the facts regarding the genesis of CDO language?
Are you really lending credibility to the DPA by citing their survey as a reason for including it in the ALPA survey ?
How can you cite the survey as scientific at this point after ATL and SLC biased the survey sample by offering suggestions (the implications thereof) on how to answer questions?