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Subject: Domestic only pilots in 7ER category

Background: Some pilots who were on the 767 domestic categories did not want to fly international trips for various reasons. Although their seniority allowed them to be in the 7ER category, they intentionally flew bid the domestic category to avoid international trips. With the combining of the two categories into a hybrid category, these pilots might be assigned long haul international trips. At the same time, many pilots in the 7ER category are having difficulty maintaining theater qualifications. The inability for pilots to maintain theater qualifications is becoming a problem for management and will only get worse as a greater proportion on the 7ER flying is now domestic.

This resolution seeks to explore the possibility and possible benefits to both pilots and management of establishing a process where pilots can volunteer to be domestic only inside the 7ER category.

Whereas, combining the 767 domestic category with the 7ER category has forced pilots who prefer not to fly international to either choose the 7ER category or take a pay cut to a lesser paying category and

Whereas, the 7ER category now has a substantial number of domestic rotations which makes it problematic for some pilots who want to fly international to maintain their theater qualification and

Whereas, pilots can be assigned international flying due to reserve assignments, inverse assignments or recovery flying even though they do not want to fly international, while other pilots may want that flying and

Whereas, there is a cost to the company to maintain a pilots theater qualification and

Whereas, due to the size of the 7ER category it will become more difficult and costly to maintain a theater qualification and

Whereas, the time and costs to establish and maintain a theater qualification for a captain who does not desire to fly long international flights would be better utilized establishing and maintaining the qualifications of those who do,

Therefore be it resolved, that the pilots of Council 44 direct their representatives to present a resolution at the next regularly scheduled MEC that explores the feasibility and benefits to the Delta pilots of establishing a “domestic only” sub group inside the 7ER category.

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