Originally Posted by TED74

A backup facility is great. But if you talk to people in IT, they suggest the architecture of the networks and the software itself needs to be reworked almost from scratch. That's the investment that will help me sleep soundly. It may not pay for itself by the next quarterly financial report, but it'd be wise if you care about the long term stability of Delta.

I don't know enough about the working relationship of the MEC chair and those who serve at his pleasure. I want a team that is all on board with the same vision at the helm. Many approaches can be successful, but not simultaneously. As the MEC chairman stated too, I appreciate the efforts of the previous scheduling chair... and his whole team. In my experience, many of those millions were recovered after individual pilots detected anomalies themselves and let the whole scheduling committee work on their behalf. It's a great service that I think itself nearly justifies my dues...but none of us should have to fund our own pay investigators because a Fortune 500 company cannot pay its employees in accordance with the working agreement.