Originally Posted by
Flytolive
I understand folks like to make things black and white, and I agree the last DAL TA was a travesty, but Moak and DALPA have been the cream of the pilot union crop until recently. They were far superior to UAL ALPA until recently and if Jay Heppner was the ALPA President right now things would be a lot worse. Moak used to **** me off when he focused on the international threat over regional scope, but it turns out he was right. The pilot/pay shortage took care of that issue and the ME3 threat is far more threatening.
If he was so right on the international threat why do they keep allowing more and more JVs? Changing from EASKs to BH? Allowing our international partners to feed Delta's growing domestic fleet while shrinking the international side.
I think the reason it seems like DALPA has done better is we have had an airline that was run better than United for awhile, that will probably change once Anderson retires. We were able to trade pay rates for work rules and profit sharing.