... and those are my concern as well.

Ironic that Slowplay, who is going to have to work with them is unconcerned. We will be too close in seniority to have one of these guys in our right seat and that point is so far off in the future that mortality tables probably have more bearing on the issue than bidding.

I thought the Compass issue was a Hail Mary pass to get some of the E175's flying at the mainline.

We will see what happened. Hard to tell, yet. If this comes to pass perhaps a group needs to get together and go to Flight Ops Management and voice our specific concerns.

Once they are here they are Delta pilots and deserving of the respect and representation that gets them.

Bingo. How many of these PNCL guys have sit through a NWA captain/HR panel interview? Also had the NWA medical and 727 SIM (which was probably useless butttt..)

There will be an interview before you can flow that much we know so far. It probably won't be as difficult as off the street though.

Huh?


Interview before a flow? Wouldn't that just mean guaranteed interviews and at some sort of rate per month or class, not really a flow? That is what that sounds like to me.

They kick the degree requirement too?

I really hope that the PNCL guys aren't clueless enough to fall for some false pretense of a flow anyway. Since the CP/XJ guys get first dibs even BEFORE off the street hires as is stated in our contract It would be a long time before any 9E guy sees a Delta #. They need to read this TA for what it is and base their decision on what is within regardless of flow or not.

A lot going on this week. American voted in a new contract, United voted in a new contract and 9E has a TA coming their way for vote. Things moving quickly.

The Delta MEC represented Compass. That was the structure in place. As stated earlier, the only true path to unity is a merger. I supported giving them Delta numbers as a solution to the created representational crisis. Had we done so we may have captured not only the 1990's 717 type but the next generation of 90 to 100 seat jet that Delta has found 4 billion to buy new.

Perhaps NWA should have bought us and had the Delta pilots a flow through. How would you have liked that? We could just let management whipsaw NWA and Delta within the Delta Holdings structure.

Obviously we would not allow that and our contractual gains would have been impossible without real unity, a merger.

Flow throughs are a cheap, cynical way of undermining unity. It disgusts me when our union facilitates outsourcing.

Ok maybe someone should define flow? I'm confusicated n stuff ;)

DCI Flows to DAL
 

I'm sure 80% of these guys would be just fine. As to the other 20% - well I bet DAL management wishes it could have a do over on some of our guys also, although I think the number would be pretty small.

My question is about DAL hiring minimums. Do all of the DCI guys have a 4 year degree? If not, is DAL going to drop this requirement or will they be required to get a degree?

What about seeing the shrink etc? If these guys don't have to do all of this then why did we do it in the first place? :confused:

Scoop