Wiggy,
While your 23 years at Delta are impressive, the immaturity of you mockingly accepting gratitude from Northwest pilots speaks volumes.
I wouldn't characterize it as "immature" I would say it was more like "trying to have fun".
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These are not quotes from a seasoned veteran of the airline profession, someone who is a role model for those younger pilots who follow him, someone who knows that mutual respect and uninhibited communication is an absolute necessity for safe flying, or at least they shouldn't be. Maybe that's what threw me.
Maybe what "threw you" is your own presumptuous arrogance. Once again, please spare me from your platitudinous, officious....(I'm running out of unused adjectives here) lectures. I'll try to sum up our "characteristics" in as fair and unbiased way as I can possibly muster: my posts are "
pretentious, sardonic,
sarcastic and dirisive" while yours are "
platitudinous, pompous, autocratic, and officious" Fair? (
sorry, something
is going on with my
font here) (smiley face)--it won't let me put more than 3.
So, now that we are here -- you with your 23 years at DAL and me with my 13 years at NWA -- how is it that you seem to think that your "pretentious, sarcastic and annoying" post are serving a constructive purpose? Or, do you?
Who would have the effrontery to say that about my posts? You should ignore his "style" New, and focus on the substance of his posts, which does serve a constructive purpose. And which substance, (on this thread) and it's conclusions, has yet to be credibly refuted.
How is it that you think that the Northwest pilots who read a "you're welcome!" exclamation coming from a senior Delta pilot will foster any good feelings for us in entering into the New Delta Family?
Well, what can I say? He p!ssed me off. We all know the "Cap'n" and I have all the equanimity and unbiasedness of a rabid badger fighting a rattlesnake.
I should not be in a position of "lecturing" you -my elder- on how to treat people that you will soon be working with.
Be careful there, I'll ignore that since you put up "big grin".
Even if it were true that you were responsible for NWA pilots payraises,
A contention I have never made....are you familiar with the term "cause and effect"?
it is juvenile for you to "behave" and "think" in this way.
Here we go again....You call it juvenile because your premise is that I personally claim responsibility for your payraises, that is a false premise, and thus any conclusion drawn is irrelevant at best, false at worse, and in this case, presumptively insulting.
The last thing we need is one side or the other intermingling with the other with an air of superiority. All any of us does is fly airplanes. Nothing more and nothing less. The only reason we fly for Delta is because they hired us or bought the company we worked for. In my opinion, you didn't get us payraises any more than we got you access to "SUPER PREMIUM WIDEBODY INTERNATIONAL FLYING!"
(
This deal/merger was put together LONG before either pilot group signed off on its concessionary contract)
Aha! the conspiracy theory! -Pushes back that "date of constructive notice" and "snapshot " even further........back...back to those thrilling days of yesteryear...cropdusting in Louisiana. Seriously though, New, thanks for the "big grin" and the "in my opinion". I actually think the 747 is a cool airplane, and I don't expect to fly it, even at 5% seniority. (but I do expect to retain the 5%
+ 2% well, maybe 3%...-don't push it!)
At any rate, it is just about time for us all to work extra hard to get along. So, why not have a few beers, think of how you dislike New K Now, then rejoice in the thought that the rest of NWA pilots are great guys/gals and are a pleasure to work with. (And just love the pay raises they just got.)
Well gosh, (sheepishly) you're not so bad Newknow.
New K Now