Originally Posted by LeineLodge

You are dead on with this post.

The part I highlighted is why guys are getting so riled up about TO's first letter. I'm willing to give him some time to see which direction he goes in w/ respect to SCOPE, and the rest of the letter was well done in my opinion. I do think it was a large step up from Moak's lack of communication. I look forward to much more of this.

The problem I have (not necessarily talking about the letter here) is that DALPA as a group cannot seem to make part of our mission statement "All Delta Flying will be done by Delta Pilots" despite numerous resolutions from the LEC's and lots of shrieking by the junior and senior alike (Thanks Carl!)

What is so wrong with us taking a stand on SCOPE like the UCal pilots have? What is wrong with us protecting OUR flying and trying to get back what was OURS? I don't see the political conundrum here why the leadership won't come out and state what we are all thinking - at least not at the DALPA level. I completely get why National has the conflict of interest.

Sailing, Alfa, Slow any thoughts??? To be clear I'm not talking about polling for contract goodies. I'm talking about a defined mission statement or core principle that we declare to the company, Republic, Bombardier, et al that SCOPE will not budge. I realize that to get it back, we are playing the 'What are you willing to give up?' game, but I think most guys just want to hear our leadership say that yes SCOPE is paramount like the UCal guys have.