I do.

I don’t usually engage, but its beyond embarrassing to see fellow, highly paid professionals fight over retiree standby tickets with kids just starting their career.

I’ve been here less than a decade and buy positive space tickets. If you don’t have seven figures in the bank at retirement, you have much bigger problems to worry about.

 

It's a real shame your union sold scope down the river. Who's PWA is allowing contractors to come in and fly your metal with your pax for cheaper wages? Maybe that would be a good starting point with your union. Maybe while you're at it, ask them how the JVs are working out. Must be great buying ZEDs on AF, Aeromexico, KLM, Italia, on and on and on instead of sitting in D1. Serious quesiton, who does more Delta branded flying, DCI + JVs or mainline? Sure, kick the little guy if it makes you feel big. But its ironically the retirees who caved on scope that paved the way for this charade. Active edv pilots are contributing to your profit check, and you want to **** them off to keep Frank happy trying to get out of Del Boca Vista? Okay, dude.

 

First off, no one reading your posts here needs your background. Of course youre a mil pilot. Whatever time you spent at ASA actually flying or commuting clearly wasn't much. Either you pushed papers full time at your reserve mil job waiting for mainline to call or you were called so quickly to mainline you can't even tell me which lever on the RJ seats stops the belts.

There's so much wrong with the rest of this I'm not gonna try. Why? Because you ignore what people do to inform you and then pretend another conversation is going on. There's nothing humble or informed about any of your opinions and that's the pushback you're getting here. The reader may decide which of us is right. Exactly no one is fooled. You're wrong because you're misinformed. Your continued crap posting on here confirms what everyone thought about you BEFORE they politely responded the first time.

I got positive space continuously for months on the old benefits before Delta changed them, as did many others when I was at EDV. When at Delta, I don't have trouble getting on, I still haven't had to use positive space at Delta while commuting to the SAME airport. I can't help how far behind you are in understanding. I can't help your tone. I can't pretend I'm the only guy on this thread, telling you to stop your pilot bashing, but maybe you can tell them to act professional for the 8th or 10th time. Unscrew your head out of your posterior and move onto another thread.

Don't give regional guys a lecture on professionalism or work ethic. These guys outwork you every time they step in an airplane and most of them get similar letters of thanks from passengers and NPS scores. I still have some of mine. They have no support, little technology, and until somewhat recently they couldn't even trust the paperwork could be printed out by the gate or Ops because of a Delta system problem with our NOTAMs. No one even addressed it for a couple days because we just handled it. They should have medals for how hard they work to get passengers and/or jumpseaters on last minute in the -200. I love my mainline job, I do, but we don't do anything at Delta. Even when I think about helping some captain will tell me, "No man, XXXXX does that. Just wait to be told what to do". No one from any regional, never mind guys at EDV, need a work ethic/professional talk from you.

 

you never will. Its pathetic they have such a priority over mainline active. Retiree is different

 

what priority does EDV have over active mainline employees?

 

They have priority over active mainline on the aircraft in their fleet.

 

I thought they had the same priority as us with DOH being the tiebreaker

 

Holy crap you nailed this one down. These are the exact sentiments of many former regional pilots here at Delta. We work with a bunch of crybabies who are so used to getting their ass kissed they freak out when others who work hard actually get something.

DAL Pilots and EDV Pilots both are contractual workers for Delta Air Lines Inc. How hard is that to understand?????

 

they’re not delta air lines planes, though.

 

Wrong that’s on Skywest. On 9E Planes we are equal to them and go by DOH.