Originally Posted by
JungleBus
Thanks for your support of the new MEC, ACL. The experience of the last eight months could have embittered you like it did a few other former ALPA volunteers; I'm glad to see it hasn't. I've been saying for a while now that a pilot group that is 65% unified isn't very unified at all. Time for us all to move on together. I'm not terribly interested in rehashing TA2015 for the umpteenth time. About two-thirds of us decided the net package wasn't enough and we were willing to risk going a more traditional route to try and get more. Will we? Time will tell, I guess. But there's no question in my mind that *any* chance of success with the traditional route will require the sort of pilot group unity that management can see and feel. Glad to see you're on board.
Yes, it can't be undone and that deal is gone. Now that I am in the cheap seats I can be critical as well.
I still do all my own analysis and will continue to follow all of it just like it did, prior and during the last bit.
I would have preferred to continue the work but I am not going to be upset that I am not currently making the decisions. Everything happens for a reason, and I am not one to get locked up in the past. I just want product over politics, and to do that does means that some will go after seated reps if they make difficult decisions. It goes with the territory.
We are where we are, so lets compel our reps to get to a point where the deal exists and be leaders. They do that, I am fully supportive.
Oh and if you don't donate to ALPA PAC. My personal opinion is the events in HND happened because we at the DAL pilot group were focused inward.(UAL has a Japanese partner and it does not effect FDX, its a DALPA issue) We need to have focus inward and outward. The Status quo of the last half of a decade was done way with very quickly. The first opportunity that was presented was used. We need to use that as a lesson.
Its a lesson on what could happen with the ME3. That one will be irreversible and much worse.