Originally Posted by Sink r8

I agree with most of what you said. A lot of the smaller items, and the IT items in particular, wirll help. On the issues of more substance, there's not been any winner because there's not been a closure to the discussion. The process that was chosen, from what I understand was this "adopt-and-go". From Delta's perspective, and the FAA's, and my own, we cross-polinate, then we debate. Everything Dixon puts out is centered around this theme, so it's not as if the company is fighting us.

I'm actually glad the company went for what's expedient, because it's also what gets us mixing sooner. That allows for the best kind of debate, and the best kind of procedures: those that line pilots push through. Had a few wise-men in their ivory tower struck deals, and reached compromises on all procedures upfornt, neither one of us would have been involved. As it stands now, the process sucks for you because you will have to come our way before we find a common (third) way, but at least nothing was set in stone. No artificial compromise was reached that would pi$$ off 100% of the people, and no significant changes were made that failed to involve the 60%. The process did, however, drive the 40% nuts, as they try to make sense of things that are only consistent... with each other. As part of a system.

The company says we will find best practices. I want best practices. And you sure aren't going to rest until we find them. So we will all get our say. I honestly believe we will figure this out.