Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

For those of you here who haven't already figured this guy out, allow me translate:

He's apparently an AirTran union rep and deeply in love with ALPA. Love is always hard to argue with, as we all know.

His biggest fear is that ALPA will be no more if DAL forms their own union. He deeply hopes that SWAPA will join ALPA so that their merged seniority list won't go so badly against him. If DAL leaves ALPA, UAL/CAL will probably go next leaving ALPA as a regional only union. SWAPA might not want to join a regional only union. Thus the need for fear and scare tactics.

This is why a non-Delta pilot is so strongly opposing our look at an in-house union. It is totally self-serving.

Carl