Originally Posted by
Scoop
ACL,
Thanks for jumping back in and sharing your thoughts. A couple of points:
I agree a vote from the Pilots is better than the MEC voting no. In my opinion a better move would have been to have the NC pack up and leave.
DAL is most certainly not doing everything they said they would with a rejection. As pointed out they quickly went out and purchased the 190s and additional 737s. In other words this was a bluff plain and simply.
Before you say it - things changed making the deal even better. I know things changed, things continually change, but the company did not say if you vote no we will not buy the 190s and 737s unless we get a better deal, they said a no vote meant no additional aircraft period.
If you guys thought the deal was mediocre but wanted the Pilots to vote - why the all out sales job?
Anyway water under the bridge - welcome back to APC.
Scoop
I flew with a certain higher up in December... he repeated the same line that they have followed through with everything that they said would happen. "We cancelled the aircraft order. That is a different aircraft order."
"but it's the same planes, right?"
"We cancelled the order. This one is different."
"Ok.... sure."
They were absolutely convinced the TA went down on social media misinformation and if they had more time it would have passed. Couldn't grasp when I told him were it to go out to a vote again today it would probably be voted down by an even wider margin.