Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
How do you propose to foster this UNITY? There is no way I want one single leg of a flight that says Delta Air Lines on it to be flown by anyone other than a seniority list pilot.
Carl
Carl,
That is unity. All flying done by seniority lists pilots.
The problem is, as it always has been, that pilots believe they have an advantage by breaking ranks and selling out other pilots for individual gain.
The problem is not the mechanism to achieve unity. The NWA and Delta pilots tackled a larger problem and combined because we knew we needed to. Delta pilots saw your 747 and intrinsically knew it had to be "Delta." It wasn't easy, but we did a good job of finding the way to unity among our pilots.
Unfortunately we looked at the bottom 50% of our own flying and decided that isn't ours. That was our decision, negotiated at our bargaining table.
To find unity we fist have to educate our membership and leadership as to why it is imperative. Why every member is power at the bargaining table.
As for an integration scheme, we can get into that if you want to. But, participating ALPA members (all of them) have to be at the table. Wars of occupation never succeed. Assimilation works.