Originally Posted by
Drum
To your first. So what? You commute in to make your trip. Period.
I commute to a NE base. It's a pain, especially after we throttled the flights as result of C-19 and most of our rotations there on my equipment are uncommutable on the front and back end. Sometimes I leave a day or 2 early to insure I am in position for the start of the trip. That is my responsibility to my employer.
If you can't be responsible to be in place for the start of your trip, maybe time to go do something else. Kicking our retirees in the back is not how this is solved. You being disciplined and professional is.
To your second statement. It has nothing to do with pass priority. A vindictive comment on your part.
You misunderstand how commuting works, you cant predict what the flight loads will be the next morning. If you wanna come in two days early thats on you, but no one except you does that.
Second, there's no one in nyc to cover said pilot who at 8am (his second shot to work) the 12pm or 1pm start. That flight is cancelled, as are his next 2-4. 30 - 50 times every morning delta was going to have to cancel 1-4 flights per pilot.
I dont know why you keep reducing this down to incorrect simplicity. If the EDV pilot doesn't get to NYC at the time this change was made, you'd cancel 3, flights at a minimum. Delta, at the time, had already tried pushing the flight onto other contract carriers. Air wisconsin refused and cancelled their delta contract under Delta pressure as a FOAD move. No other contract carrier would touch the flying without an exorbitant fee.
Delta made a business decision. EDV pilots didnt even ask for it. The only way you can blame them is if you go back in time years to when edv was placed as S3b (Pinnacle days? Pre edv). Edv alpa union was trying to leverage delta to pay edv more so guys could afford to live in nyc, they weren't begging for s3a.