Originally Posted by
Dogecoin
Scope never should have been given away in the first place. Go read my other posts, I want tighter scope. I'm not eager about supporting our TA BECAUSE it is tied to scope.
This doesn't mean we need to accept being subjugated to the bottom of a combined list when many of our pilots have given decades of service to Northwest and now Delta. I'm not asking for DOH or relative seniority since that would be completely unreasonable but a staple would not be fair either.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but what is it that you find so objectionable about a staple? It guarantees you a spot at DAL. So I can see only one of two things to look at here. 1 is that if you are stapled, your seniority is fixed where it is now vis a vis your regional comrades. 2 is that if you are NOT stapled, you take your chances in the open market, and maybe think you can be hired ahead of some of those that are currently senior to you at your current place of employment.
In any 'merger' situation, you ain't coming in ahead of any current DAL pilot. That's a fantasy that you will realize about the same time they offer me a trip to Mars.