Originally Posted by Nick Bradshaw

bugman is right. The RLA was written to protect management and the consumers, not labor. The only thing alpa could do is file a federal lawsuit against Delta as a "major dispute" and roll the dice in the 11th Circuit, a very conservative district. They won't win.

Unity is the answer. As said above, the customers had a meltdown and the company backpedaled on the SkyMiles thing. When NPS scores plummet because pilots are no longer going that extra mile with pa announcements and "moments that surprise and delight" maybe they'll see their error here too.

I really don't think DH has it in him to unify this pilot group, much less the MEC. He took this job because he wanted to see his name on the marquee and grab as much easy cash as he could at the end of his career, not because he wanted to do the work. He's just a puppet of the previous weak MEC chair who is doing his best to walk in the footsteps of his hero, Lee Moak. The weak majority of the MEC doesn't see a problem and wouldn't want to upset the apple cart and this great scam they have going here. That makes them complicit. Their weakness enabled RG's rise to power and his reign of terror in the first place.

tl:dr alpa is weak and useless and it's going to be up to the pilot to unify and say enough is enough.