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. Most lifers at the regionals want to take as much flying as possible for their own growth. How do we bridge this gap?
Carl
I'm no regional lifer, and I can't speak for the lifers, but with my limited knowledge of airlines, outsourcing, and unions, we (the regional pilots) have
zero power in deciding how much flying and what airframes we are given. That is completely up to Delta and the upper level managers at xyz regionals.
The only people who have actual power to affect change of this "outsourcing" trend are you guys.
I'm not your enemy. I don't want more flying. I may not have this job for the right reasons, but I don't want to stay here forever especially at the expense of a chance of sitting in a real Delta seat.
Lifers aren't your enemy. They are merely protecting their seats from lower bidders.
Stopping outsourcing has to start at the source. All we can do at a regional is preventing outsourcing of our contract flying.