Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Jerry, all you have to do is look at the increase in jobs verses the increase in block hours to verify jobs gained or lost. I posted numbers in the past. You also overlook that crew planning in roadshows stated they made no manning changes for contract 2012.
DALPA posted how much hiring they expected over the course of contract 2012. We will easily exceed that number. Also keep in mind that in addition to the hiring we started with a 400 to 600 pilot surplus and had 200 pilots return from furlough and mil leave.
Lots of data and "reasons" after the fact. When Steve Dickson suggested that hiring would start right after TA passage, the folks at DALPA were conspicuously quiet if all this data to refute his claim was available.
Pilots don't usually make the same mistake twice if they got burned the first time. Credibility is gone when it comes to DAL getting new jets based on the pilots' contract.