Originally Posted by
theUpsideDown
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.
Ha, you really said that. I've been commuter my life in the regionals (to NYC) and as a Delta Pilot (ATL, LAX and NYC). I pretty well understand how commuting works. Further, desptie what you said, it is your responsibility to be in position for the start of your trip. Its in the FOM. Your CP will tell you that a thousand times during your probationary meetings. That never goes away. They don't care where you live. All they care about is that you be there for the start of your trip. Simple. Up to you to figure that out. You can be a responsible adult, or play a childs game.
This sounds like a manning problem to me. Why doesn't/didn't EDV staff reserves properly? Trying to get by on a razors margin perhaps to save a few cost bleems? Who was running EDV at the time this went down?
Yes I distill this down to simple fact. EDV pilots don't work for DAL. Our retirees should ALWAYS enjoy a higher priority for non-rev over non-Delta employees when traveling on our aircraft. I think we can get it.