Originally Posted by
johnso29
No Sir, rumor or not I will NEVER take it lightly. And the fact that ANY DALPA elected rep would scares me. The flood of posts, phone calls, & emails that have gone out today further reiterate that many in this pilot group will also never take this lightly.
Fear mongering or not, this will always cause us to SQUAWK. Flame away.
The only thing I am elected to is chief trash remover in my house. I do take stupid rumors like this lightly, because they are stupid rumors. Not only that, we have heard a different version of that same story at least half a dozen times in the last four months. The end is always the same "those dirty ALPA guys were going to sell us out, until the junior police showed them how its done" when in fact there never was anything to the story in the first place.
The fact that you can get spun up like this on such a flimsy account is a little funny. I don't take scope lightly, just dumb rumors. If Delta wants to buy E-195's (and they have said many times they don't want those airplanes, they are not economical, in their opinion) you will not hear about it from a guy who knows a guy whose aunt spoke to a friend who works on the fourth floor.