Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
No pilot that I have ever spoken to is "mad" at the Comair pilots due to their strike. In fact we admired their fortitude, and in fact every Delta flight I flew during the entire strike I ensured was not in any way a sort of extra section or upgrade of equipment so as to somehow give mgmt a tool to lessen the strike's impact. We even had a booklet printed and issued by our Strike Committee detailing the steps we should take to review such flying.
However, how do you expect DAL pilots to feel when:
a. The Comair MEC unilaterally petitions ALPA national to get on our seniority list (and at least some assumed that their Comair DOH would transfer over, giving an RJ captain an instant 767 left seat).
b. The Comair MEC leadership explicitly rejected the idea of furloughed DAL pilots flying for Comair at the bottom of the seniority list unless they resigned their DAL seniority.
c. Comair pilots were leading proponents of RJDC nonsense.
d. Now "Joe Merchant" STILL thinks that a Comair pilot should get hired at DAL with his Comair DOH used for "bidding purposes"?....
And ya'll wonder?
We don't really wonder;
a. Our MEC doesn't have the power to unilaterally force Comair to uphold our own contract, much less force Anderson and Moak into a merger. Besides, our guys senior enough to hold Capt. 767 are just senile enough you could tell them they've been promoted to Commodore, give 'em solid epaulets and make them sit j/s for a couple days at a time (just go cold mike & don't let them touch anything). The rest of us junior peaons would gladly take a staple and the worst rsrv. lines on the DC-9.
b. A huge chunk of us weren't here when J.C. did that...we're not big fans of his work!
c.Not so sure RJDC was "nonesense" (granted, it could have been handled differently)...it seems pretty obvious ALPA has a conflict of interest. Wasn't ASA part of that too?
d. I don't want to speak for JoeMerchant, but I believe he was referring to DOH within our peer group (DCI carriers). It'll never happen, but nice to know there are others you can count on in a bar fight.