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.
Nice proposed solution, now how do you get it done? How do you get it done easily? NWA management took a lot of trouble and effort to create this separate operation. Somehow you think we could get our management to undo that, how? By saying pretty please? It is just naive to think that it would be "easy" or done for nearly nothing. To think that we could ask management to merge Compass and they would give us contract gains in the process is really naive.
Frankly, Ray Charles saw that divestiture was an option the minute NWA set up Compass. That is why management set it up that way and that is why it would be neither easy nor cost free to change their minds. Clearly the NWA MEC saw it as an option as they wrote in contingencies in the side letter to deal with that possibility.
I truly believe that our company would be better off by bringing back 70+ seat flying to mainline. The people that own and run this company think otherwise. You can change their minds (cheap solution but quite difficult) or buy them out (expensive solution and still difficult). To think you can "study" your way out of that dilemma is not realistic. Appoint me dictator for life at Delta and I will fix it easy and quickly. Until that happens we will continue to work in the real world.