Originally Posted by
Unity by Design
Nobody fought harder to bring that flying to Delta than I. Here on APC & on Chit Chat it was called a "B Scale" even though it paid $15 an hour more than the highest 747 rate pre-merger and more than the 7ER left seat prior to C2012.
Overall, it did not seem pilots had much enthusiasm for the type. Even among guys I worked with on the Compass resolutions.
... and I will continue to work for improved scope & more flying for Delta pilots until "purged" as you say.
Bar,
I'm all for the E jets to be flown by us. Unfortunately, they were part of this TA...a carrot. I'm all for the carrot. But, the carrot was coupled with a stick. To eat the carrot, you got whacked by the stick.
This stick was partially a loss on the top end of scope. It doesn't take a ton of imagination to see that when you delete the growth opportunity on the big high paying stuff and replace it with lower paying smaller gauge jets (which pay significantly less than similar gauge we already fly) where the trajectory is.
I'm not certain you understand this completely because you are in the seniority band where you would fly left seat on the e jet...great! For me and many others, we want the jets at mainline but, they are behind us seniority-wise. It's a carrot I want, but not to get hit by the stick of big jet opportunity loss.