Originally Posted by
texas1970
DALPA can say whatever they want, the reality is that if Delta management believes that certain pilot gains will result in effects with other workgroups, Delta will place an accordingly higher price on them. It doesn’t matter if it’s rational, reasonable, or fair. This is a negotiation, and Delta ultimately has to agree to the deal.
That is patently false. The company can't cost external things outside the value of OUR contract. They can't tell the NMB that "well since the pilots want XX it will force us to give ZZ to the non-cons". That's not how costing works, at all. It's the value of OUR contract, on its face nothing more. The company can only submit what the their estimates are based solely on our asks. Nothin more can be included here. It's pretty narrowly defined.