Originally Posted by
NERD
Pineapple won't like this but he should have called in sick after trying AA and airtran . By calling in stooopid he not only lost money on the denied boarding but lost his trip to boot. Too bad Dalpa was in such a rush to get a contract alone vs. working together to cherry pick...As more and more of you southies commute you will realize the value of our call in honest program.
Sadly NW was never able to negotiate any type of call in honest policy in their contract. The only call in honest policy was in the Delta contract. NW flight ops had extended a policy only that could be revoked at any time to the NW pilots for commuting. All attempts to get that policy in the contract at NW failed. There was nothing to bring over to the joint contract.
The joint contract was negotiated by both NW and Delta pilots. The Delta pilots did not do it alone. The NW pilots voted to ratify that contract with a much higher percentage of yes votes then the Delta pilots.