Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1443716)

Just talked directly with a Chief Pilot who said we are currently overmanned system wide by around 700 Pilots! I really hope that this is not correct. :cool: Anyone else hear a similar number?:confused:
Scoop

Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1443652)

We are 1 year into the new contract. It has been widely labeled here as a sales job by dalpa. Several other people have defended its merits vigorously.

IMO, bigbusD deserves some significant respect for his viewpoints since he is a well proven pilot advocate. So, when he says there is too much gloom on here, it made me reflect.

Despite my belief that 717s were coming anyway and my distinct distaste that we have apparently shifted away from the old 3b6 section where new aircraft pay rates had to be settled before the aircraft could operate (to now actually using aircraft purchases as a carrot rather than a business decision).

I would like to de-gloom a bit and see if we can put a positive spin on where we are versus where we were a year ago.

Using this methodology, maybe we can determine if dalpa/ALPA is our advocate or if they are an extension of management who gets 1.9% of our pay for crowd control.

Originally Posted by Surprise (Post 1443905)

You know, on that note, I gotta ask...

We all love Led Zeppelin, but you could have just as easily named yourself Kashmir or Stairway to Heaven. I'm starting to think Ten Years Gone has a bit of a double meaning, no?

Originally Posted by ShyGuy (Post 1443919)

Any Delta pilot shortage will be handled by pilots picking up green slips. :o

Originally Posted by TOGA LK (Post 1443729)

Lets recap. Before out TA AA and CAL owned all flying over 50 seats, AA had a few dozen CRJ-700s. United only had CRJ-700s (70 seats) and they were tied to domestic block hours. DAL by far had the worst scope control and furthered CRJ-900s quite a bit. Now look where the industry is; everyone gave up scope right after our sell out for pay.

Pinnacle gets 40 more additional CRJ-900s, announces a new MSP HQ and MSP narrow body flying vanishes much like it has in SLC and LAX with Skywest and AS. Yet we call this a win?