Originally Posted by
FDXLAG
What would be wrong with a couple hundred guys sending this to a DP flyer:
Dear XXXXXXXX
I read your name on a list of pilots voluntarily flying pairing 123. As you know the company and the union have agreed to dispute this pairing. Since your voluntary actions will, in all probability, lead to me eventually being forced to fly this onerous trip; my I ask you how did it go? Should we tell those scheduling experts in the SIG they are wrong?
Please let me know soonest, and I will forward your comments to all my other friends heping to keep the Purple Promise.
In Unity,
Your Name Here
The last sentence is in case you want to use the company e mail.
I don't see anything threatening in that. I'm not sure that the best course of action is to have individual pilots writing directly to DP fliers though. I think the "education process" can be more effective if done from the union standpoint. IOW, pass the resolution, put the names out there and make it known to everyone that the names are out there. I wouldn't think it would be prudent to ever put something down in writing regarding the flying of disputed pairings. I don't like to write much at all. My main reason is, it is extremely difficult to convey emotion through an e-mail. What may have been written as truly sincere can come across as sarcastic or entirely different meanings can come out. For instance, I read USMCFDX's e-mails as very sarcastic. I also assumed he is a disputed pairing flier just by the way he "smelled a lawsuit" and said, "see what it gets you" regarding your letter. I may be wrong, but on this message board, that is the way I read it.