^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^

If it moves in that direction, I'll let my reps know what I think, walk a picket line if necessary, always and always "fly the contract", but one thing is absolutely certain:

I'm not going to let any merger, or staple, or "unfair" arbitration list define my happiness. You know the type. Droning on and on from the left seat about how they got screwed about some list integration 20 years ago. Cost them their 3rd wife and second beach house.

Life's too short, it's all a crapshoot anyway. Control what you can (very little), learn to live with what you can't (damn near everything).

Maybe I can go 0/2 with the new flow? Missed the NWA one by 250 numbers. Have about that above me now. All good though...thankful to have a heathy family and job...

Oh, you know that's going to happen.

Bottom line is the more rjs flying around the less mainline jobs there are .
A lot of these regionals have grown to be too dam big ,just because of cheaper labor costs .
I shake my head when I see guys getting a woodie when xyz regional gets more planes blah blah blah .
That only slows career progression for everyone.

True and the routes that we are doing is hardly regional flying. I don’t know what the answer is. Hopefully DL can keep the flying at mainline and some guys can flow. That’s probably the most realistic outcome so far.

....and I only say some because I don’t see this thing playing out long enough to get a flow for all.

Agreed. All seems a bit like a distraction from the real issue at play here: SCOPE

Does Delta ALPA really think they will win this arbitration case?

They will win, the question is what will the penalty be.

Not that I really care but don't you see it as a hard win? The language is pretty clear that Delta can substitute any other carrier for a flow down to place. Anyways if ALPA wins the case, the planes have to fly. Delta just lost Billions of dollars. It's clear that grounding the airplanes is not the best business decision for the company nor the pilots. It's a toss up, but really no harm was done to the Delta pilots, the deal of LOA just found a new home. Like carry on already.

Yes, they are pretty confident in their strong case. Heard directly from our MEC Chaiman personally.

There is always risk in an arbitrator, however, as a third party can’t be predicted.