Originally Posted by
JamesBond
So what? That is all a management decision. Go interview at UAL if you think you made such a big mistake. There is nothing you can do no matter how hard you jump up and down and whine about it to make DAL management buy that kind of fleet if they don't want/need it. You are just crying about what somebody else has and that has zero relevance to our negotiations. zero.
The problem isn't so much that UAL has more large wide bodies than we do. "We" have a lot, its just not our seniority list that flies them. For some reason foreign airlines, supposedly barely making a profit if at all, are vastly preferred in the "Skyteam" network over DL pilots, who have to claw tooth and nail to get "half" of the flying, which is generally thought to be a long term 47%-ish share.
So while the DALPA "move along nothing to see here" narrative of "we can't control what planes the company buys" is technically true, there's way more to it than that.
Its time for fair block hour
and ESK metrics in our PWA, with strict penalties for non compliance, as well as it being time to define "half" as 53% for the next decade or two.