Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
The argument that it is bad for mainline is weak. First, if we take CPS in to the fold and add them to the list, the amount of jets will be reduced by 36. They would have to agree to it. Two, if you look at the numbers they only have 32 more airframes they can buy before they hit the 255 jet max. Even though they would prefer to have 255 76 seat jets, the economics to not make sense to trade in a 70 for a 76 seat jet. The economics are just not there to do that. Because of this, you will only see 32 more jets ordered under the DCI brand that have more than 69 seat in them. Maybe at sometime there will economic to support trading in a jet that has only 70 seats to buy a 40 million dollar jet with six more seats, but it is not currently there.
Of course if all we were going to do was take a one decisional view to this it would be worse for the DAL pilots. Are we that stupid? I hope not. We know we would need adjust to section 1. That has been known from day 1.
I am not saying anything about adding compass to the seniorty list. never once did i mention that in my post. I feel Delta's MEC is making a big mistake buy not wanting to have cohesion with Compass. there is a real possibility that if Delta furloughed you would be removing pilots from one MEC and putting those Delta pilots to Compass with another MEC. How is this a good thing? As it stands now Compass is nothing more then a good safty net and that safty net is represented by the same MEC. I guess i don't understand the hard line against Compass we never asked for anything more then what was negoiated for us by our NWA MEC. It was COMPASS pilots that voted down the resolution by mainline pilots that requested a immediate staple. Why because it's not the right thing todo to achieve solidarty. What we asked was for a little time to meet the Delta pilots and let them see the unique structure between NWA and Compass. It is not the same as Delta and Comair. I guess some people only want to take parts of the contract and obligations between NWA and Compass to the new Delta.
For once in this industry a mainline and regional had aligned interests and the fact our MEC's were so close, with aligned interest's. Now we want to take that solidarity and throw it out the window. BRILLIANT.