Originally Posted by texas1970

agreed. As HK said, half our airline commutes. This is obviously an item of importance to lots of pilots. Y’all think Delta is just gonna give us an item that, as you all have been saying, is very important? That’s not how negotiations work.

Some changes will be worth the cost. But if delta truly thought that the backup language was worthless, they wouldn’t have it - and they wouldn’t have unilaterally changed the FOM policy to require 2 hours between flights. Nothing points to this being a low cost item.