Originally Posted by
PCL_128
They're already flying Delta passengers in airplanes with widgets on the tails. The average passenger doesn't even realize that he's not on a Delta mainline flight. The same is true for regional carriers flying feed for every mainline carrier.
Think of it this way: if a regional pilot is not fit to be flying your passengers, yet the regional carrier hasn't weeded him out over all of these years that he's been a "lifer," don't you think that the way to weed him out and get him to stop flying Delta passengers is to get the Delta training department a chance at getting rid of him?
Mainline pilots need to lose the mentality that regional guys should be shunned. The only way you'll ever end the outsourcing is to bring the regional guys in, not push them away.
WOW!...I agree 100% with PCL128...and that is significant if you know the history between us.
It's too bad this wasn't resolved back in 2000 when ASA and CMR filed the PID as it would have been easier back then. The "stars were more in alignment" back then as far as leverage, but is looks as though the stars are now aligning from the standpoint of "mainline opinion"...
1. DCI regional pilots already fly Delta passengers...Have for many years and will continue to. If it is a "danger", then it is whether they sit in a DCI cockpit or a Delta cockpit.
2. It is in EVERYONE's best interest to negotiate as ONE with a SINGLE group. That being said, I do believe that ship has sailed and we most likely won't see that ever happen now.
3. I am one of those regional "lifers"...I didn't plan on that, but because scope was sold, I decided to go for QOL at the top of the regional list rather than the bottom of the mainline list.....We can either work TOGETHER as ONE, or we can work against each other as separate groups defending our own turf...I am OK either way, we just need to establish the rules.
4. Very interesting to see how the view of a "single list" has changed in the past decade...