Originally Posted by
Scoop
How is he delusional? I think he brings up a good point. We (The Delta Pilot group) are counting on our contractual language to pull off a win? It seems I have seen this movie once or twice before. It should be a no-brainer and yet somehow I am worried.
No matter how many times we are burned by poor PWA language we keep repeating it.
The intent of the Pilot group was a specific flow with Compass. When the flow down may have been needed it was not there. Now that it may not be needed it may come back.
Regardless of what happens, it is inconceivable that we would have allowed any language without bulletproof, waterproof, airtight, and management proof language it it. How many times do we as a Pilot have to be burned by swiss cheese type PWA wording?
I get it, we have to negotiate and can not demand things from management, but there is no excuse whatsoever for thinking our PWA protects us from something to find out that we were outmaneuvered once again.
Finally, even if we win the grievance it will be a tactical win for DALPA but a strategic loss as we will most likely fly the 35 Large RJs all summer long.
Scoop
Some things are worth making the stand for. SCOPE (for me at least) is one of them. This is not a huge gamble. The language is the language. IF we lose what have we lost? Maybe a little leverage if we intended to negotiate them back into the fold anyway. I don't want them back unless they come to mainline. If management was not supposed to operate them through the pandemic it seems clear to me they are gone. If we lose we go back to the status quo of a feel good LOA with no real benefit, that's not a loss but rather a stalemate with a huge effort (show of force) that SCOPE will be defended and retaken.