Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
you are acting like we are letting a spirit jumpseater go ahead of retirees. Endeavor employees contribute to the operation that allowed us to have an airline to fly on
not trying to be a Richard, but they are not just another airline with little affiliation to us. They exclusively fly delta passengers on delta owned planes in and out of delta hubs all day long and have no other affiliation with any other airline. If we focus on section 1 of the contract and bring that flying back that would be the best way to solve this problem IMO but that is another discussion for another day.
Speaking as a guy from EDV now at DAL, Delta management made it extremely clear they felt EDV folks were abusing the positive space. We had to do extra paperwork every time we did it, and Delta found out they were wrong.
Just MEM-NYC or DTW-NYC a couple pos space tickets wouldnt matter. But you had jax, orf, bos, mco, fll, and a lot of bigger dollar cities missing double digits of seats on EDV pos space when there weren't any spaces to spare... Delta made a business decision and left the retirees out in the cold.
It was either upgauge for non revs trying to goto work to make delta money or get the EDV guys on. That is getting forgotten pretty quickly in all this.