Originally Posted by
vyperdriver
The sad thing is its taking, united, American, allegiant, UPS and Southwests Unions to make significant gains in order to try, and i mean try to set our table. ALPA should be leading this advance not following. At the most profitable airline in the world, this should have been much easier. The lack of progress has been staggeringly disappointing.
I respectfully disagree. The pilots of Delta (not the previous MEC, the membership) led the industry toward significant advances by holding the line during our early-open negotiations last round. We're now about to pattern after those for whom we were enablers. Progress for ourselves is coming; be patient. Nothing worth having comes easily and the mindset that "this should be easy" is a dangerous one at any bargaining table.