S3A.....Again
 

I'm a VEOP. Yeah, they gave us 6 S3A pass days a year which is better than nothing. We'll all be retirees someday so this will impact everyone. Can i implore our MEC/pilot group to "undo" the S3A for Endeavor pilots and families? Even when I was active, I thought this was totally unacceptable that any Endeavor family member boards ahead of 30+ year Delta retirees. And yes, I spoke with my DTW Capt. rep about this(and he agreed)
If you guys give any ALV relief or anything for that matter, this is a "no cost item" you could get. Either get rid of S3A altogether, or elevate Delta retirees to S3A. My only compromise would be to allow Endeavor pilots commuting to work and return to have this status only.

Fire away

Hate to put it this way but Endeavor employees are active and flying/ working on delta owned planes exclusively for delta, retirees are not. Why should they get bumped by someone who has no current affiliation with delta (I say this as someone who never flew for endeavor)

I mean no disrespect, I hope you are able to enjoy your retirement, even if it was earlier than you hoped

Why should they get priority? We own them, sure, but they are contracted labor. I would think our own retirees would benefit first.

I think the Endeavor pilots are great, but they shouldn’t water down our own benefits.

Sure thing Cog! I've voiced same to by council. This needs to be un-f'd

GF - the family of the EDV employee is not actively flying. No. They don't get S3A. The active employees of EDV are contract labor. No S3A either. We have to draw a line here, and Cog has a very reasonable request many here I think would support. It is an easy win if we ask IMHO.

neither is my family and they can bump an active employee who was hired after me. Conversely I can be bumped by your spouse/kid since you are senior to me, how is that fair?

Nothing in life is fair. If you want fair, I suggest you move to Venezuela, everyone there is equally starving in total fairness to all.

The S3A to EDV was a spiteful jab at this Delta pilot group - nothing more.

Lol yeah, because I have a different view than you I should move to Venezuela.

S3A was not a spiteful jab at Delta pilots. That’s laughable if you really think that. Endeavor employees contribute exclusively to delta’s operations daily. Why should they go behind someone who is no longer affiliated with delta? Why not just have retirees keep their S3s with DOH and go to the front of the list?

I should say, as a furloughee I am going to be on S3B passes myself very shortly and I still think 9E should get S3As

I operate out of a 9E nest, with the limited space avail. I have been flying Allegiant to avoid the "Bye,bye" wave at the gate.

It was definitely a jab at the DAL pilots. It’s laughable if you don’t think that.....

I’d propose maybe using years of service as the metric for these two groups. For example, I think a DL retiree with 30 yrs service should have priority over an active EDV pilot with 10 years service. But, the 10 year EDV pilot would have priority over a 5 year DAL S3B. Just a thought.


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how was it a jab at pilots? Retirees, yeah it was a kick at ALL retirees, but I fail to see how this was designed as a poke in the eye specific to pilots?!?!

The S3A retiree vacation passes work that way, I personally think this is a great compromise. I’m guessing Cog has a DOH before just about every endeavor employee and could have used that as a way to go ahead of them. But (and this is a serious question, not rhetorical) why should an active employee who exclusively works for delta go behind someone who has no current affiliation to DL?