Originally Posted by
ExAF
The letter is from the DALPA chairman not the ALPA chairman. The DALPA chairman SHOULD be making scope a bullet point since it it VERY important to the DALPA members he represents. It has nothing to do with a "watered-down lets group hug the regionals" ALPA statement. DAL does not fly commuters so he doesn't represent them at all. I too am disappointed he didn't mention scope in his letter. Time to actually start listening instead of hearing.
While I don't usually comment on here about DALPA/ALPA and the direction our contract should take, I do find it troubling that some folks (not singling you out ExAF) get extremely excited and make inflamatory remarks about something that the union leadership DOES NOT say. I venture to say that we all have something very important to us that the chairman did NOT mention. Maybe retirement is more important to me than scope. Should I get all bent out of shape because of that? I think it is important to realize that the MEC has to take the concerns of ALL the Delta pilots into consideration and try to focus on issues that we all agree on. In many ways that is very difficult to do but here, I think, the master chairman has focused on an issue that we all agree on - pay. I will not blast him right out of the gate for what he did not mention even if it is very important to me individually or collectively among some here on APC. We don't speak for the entire pilot group. I'm sure that the lounge visits have had different flavors around the system. I am willing to give this new leadership team a chance to see how they will respond to us before giving them serious critique.
