Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Alpha,
The separation of our representative structure facilitated a spin off. Ray Charles could have seen that coming.
My proposed solution was to extend our list down to capture Compass as Delta pilots. Concomitantly closing the loophole that allowed the largest and most capable small jets from being outsourced. Not true. My position is that we could have captured Compass for nearly nothing, possibly even gaining in the process. It was a subject worth of further study. Several resolutions were proposed along those lines and passed. At our MEC level, the f-DAL Reps voted to take no action on the request for study.
It is my recall, you have argued that scope restoration has a huge economic cost.
Given what Compass sold for, I would say it had little value to management. (worse, Delta's agreed to send more Billions out the door to fund other airlines' operations until 2017, these Billions will not benefit any Delta pilots)Not exactly, the market goes up more than it goes down. The problem is the market goes down much faster than it goes up. Bottoms are much harder to predict because fear is such a strong emotion. Sound valuations based on good data are irrelevant if there is simply no one bold enough to buy.
http://www.crestmontresearch.com/pdf...%20Yo%20Yo.pdf
You'll get the last word ... I have to go work.Worth repeating.
I would disagree with almost everything in the post. I have had personal conversations with some of the people directly involved on the management side on these type issues. There was virtually nothing we could have offered to convince management to merge Compass or Comair or ASA with out list. Keep in mind we don't control the list. Management does. They have a very defined agenda and operating a airline with all the pilots on one bargining agreement and one agent is their absolute worst nightmare. They want to divide and keep the groups divided in as many groups as possible. Why do you think they did not merge ASA and Comair when it would seem to make business sense from every aspect you could look at? That also brings up the biggest failure of the ASA and Comair MEC's when they did not demand a single carrier ruling from the NMB. That would have been almost a lock given the Eagle decision.