Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Set aside the two personalities you reference for a moment. Can such a large percentage of N pilots all be wrong? Can such a large portion of our side's managers all be misreading your side's management.
Yup, the three guys that regularly post negatively here from the North are generally wrong!
It took about 3 years for the WAL merger to make big changes in the way DAL did business. Right after that came the PAA acquisition. That one, while smaller, was more involved but still took about 3 years to make all the checklist and policy impacts.
The corporate transaction happened October 30, 2008. We got to SOC December 31, 2009 by using "adopt and go." There will be changes looking for the "better" way coming. And for all the guys that bash IT, compare Delta's result after 14 months with that of USAirways.
I get it. It ain't perfect. Neither was the airline you came from. Because 80% of the change has been for you, the differences are more stark. You can choose to continue to berate your coworkers while going for that last gopher and blow up the whole golf course if you'd like. I'd call that a pyrrhic victory if you were successful.
Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
We're not talking contract here guys, we're talking about implementation. And as far as DALPA, we're talking about enforcement. Is enforcement ever talked about at DALPA there slow?
Yup. We enforce the contract. We don't file frivolous "grievances." When we do go to the 5 man, we generally win. More often than not, we get the case settled in the pilots favor prior to there ever being a grievance because we engage management and prove that our point of view is correct.