Nu and Ferd,
Step out side the box and knowing what you know about both ways of doing business: DAL and fNWA, if you were able to choose one method over the other objectively, which would it be? Hands down for me it would be the NWA way. That is not a slam to the DAL way, just my honest opinion. Both operations have good ways of flying the airplane, but as a whole I feel the NWA way was somewhat safer in that we were concerned about flying the airplane in what we as a group of pilots came up with as opposed to choosing BA procedures because the lawyers say so. I only hope that there is real and meaningful discussions about the best practices, procedures, checklist and paperwork in the future. I feel like there is a combination of things that would be better than both the former systems and only hope that is the goal. I don't think this would be a large change but small suttle improvements. What has been soooooo dissapointing so far has been the shut up and sit down treatment alot of our guys have recieved and the whinning label. Not productive. I for one have not given up hope, but for the guys who think things are going so well because we are arguing about pay check amounts, the fNWA guys have pretty much sat down and shut up and that does not mean that we are all happy and giddy. Alot of us are still pretty ticked off and hoping that things get better. In a nut shell, what the DAL experience has shown me is how good of an airline I came from and how good of a contract we had and did not know it. Now the goal is to make this airline much better than what we both had before. Just my opinion and rant and not meant to offend or slam the Sguys.