Originally Posted by
iceraide
I'm gonna throw this out here and take it as you will.
Please don't hold this against Endeavor pilots. I can promise you that your management most certainly put a deal on the table and there was little "negotiating" from our MEC. We have zero power to tell DL how it is so I highly doubt we influenced much.
None of the 9E group wants to take away from your scope and all of you are exactly right, we won't get a single new plane from this deal. It's possible some of our parked 900s may come back but we all know 170/175s will go to Skywest and Republic.
If you ask me, I'd rather just fly a 200 on property at Delta until the opportunity to move up to a different fleet was available.
And just for perspective, I'm a Captain at 9E that was weeks away from my DL interview pre-covid. My "flow" would be 2-3 years at best. Not something I want to sit around and wait for.
My understanding is those 35 Large RJ’s would go to RPA not OO. I also just read another post claiming Delta would just run over to OO and negotiate flow with their management if 9E turned down the offer. Yeah NOT A CHANCE SkyWest management would ever take a flow offer from DL so RPA can get 35 RJ’s.
Now RPA might have done the deal.
I would have rather seen a “stapled” EDV list than watch our scope get torn up again. I’ll say it again congratulations to delta management for FINESSING two pilot groups. We just lost our scope, and the EDV pilots just took massive concessions for a damn carrot.
CONGRATULATIONS