Originally Posted by
tsquare
My job.. and your job is to fly airplanes.. period. It is management's job to buy those airplanes.. deploy those airplanes.. sell seats on those airplanes... market those seats.. and most importantly, to make money with those assets. Pay me for being a pilot.. period. That's what I do..
Fair enough.
I have found that the general (painting with VERY broad strokes here) negotiating stance of DALPA has been to work with management, vs. say APA, who has taken a more adversarial stance. The part of my post that leaves you 'scratching your head' reflects on a scope idea tailored to help the company and the pilots. Perhaps that is part of the source of DALPA's failures (setting goals that work to attain more than just 'flying planes' with negotiations), or even an underlying reason that there is a drive for DPA.