Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
No sailingfun, those percentages are not based on the contractual share of the flying and metric used. Those percentages are due to our management allowing those percentages to continue and our "union" doing nothing to defend our language against the company's violation of said language for the last 4 years.
Baloney. That's why percentages are the metric. Our percentage share of the flying has gone down. That's not arguable. The euros percentage of the flying has gone up. That's also not arguable.
Carl
Carl, Scambo (and anyone else who wants to see the data):
MEC Update 14-07 has an excellent review of
"Codeshare, our Joint Ventures and 747's" which was exhaustively researched and written by your IAAC Chairman. The article was published 8 September 2014.
ALPA.org>>MEC>>MEC Document Library>>Communications>>MEC Update
... and for further reading
ALPA.org>>MEC>>MEC Document Library>>International Affairs and Alliances>>Presentations
ALPA.org>>MEC>>MEC Document Library>>International Affairs and Alliances>>Codeshare
Sailingfun used common vernacular rather than get into "Equivalent Available Seat Kilometers." He makes a good point that the other carriers could pull down capacity and pop Delta up on a percentage basis.
When the Trans Atlantic JV was written I applauded the idea of percentage allocation. We have learned that even our parent companies (on both sides of the Atlantic) have difficulty complying. The window was opened large in anticipation of growth which did not happen.
To quote from the MEC Update, "Let's be clear, ALPA does not condone ... . ALPA neither sympathizes with the Company nor does it wish to enable non compliance. ... in future negotiations we will push to see JV terms modified to shorter duration measurement periods.
We will continue to enforce our contract and we fully expect the MEC to seek a remedy for this violation when it occurs."
(emphasis Delta MEC Communications)