Originally Posted by
marcal
This is irony at its finest. Delta led every airline out of the post 9/11 and bankruptcy era for 3 contracts in a row based on interest based bargaining. The minute this pilot group decided not to pursue that strategy, our lead stopped.
You don't think the Delta pilot group pursued 'interest based bargaining" WRT the first TA? Based on the vote it was too much in the interests of management and not enough in the pilots' interest.
I agree you all led the way since 9/11, but the last TA was simply substandard relative to the circumstances (profitability, pilot shortage, positive pattern, etc.) and thankfully the Delta line pilots said no. IMO you all have made the right call every time for the last twenty years with the possible exception of scope, but to a certain extent Moak was right that the RJ situation would fix itself and that the key threat was international (ME3, Norwegian, etc.). Now you have the United extension, the SWAPA TA, and the UPS deal to help.
DAL management overplayed their hand and they are going to pay for it.