Originally Posted by hitimefurl (Post 1476835)

You can twerk a topic like a teetering tightrope walker. Hate is the tool of ALPA??? Really. Eliminating ALPA is your goal (as stated above), it is not starting an independent union. Those of us that have taken the time to read the documents and the forums on the website know the business model is flawed.

The DPA just sent out an update last month that used the words "angered" "upset" "concerned" "upset (again)" and "worried" in talking about how the TWA trial will affect you financially and all of this a few days after having already writen this:

You are consumed with talk about ALPA the hater and ALPA the fear monger yet Tim writes to us using nothing but fear that we do all after he wrote on a public website that he told a bank to get one million dollars (pinky finger) that there was no personal liability. Is he lying to the bank or is he lying to us?

This isn't about hate, it's fundamental flaws in the DPA constitution that make it impossible to open up shop:

• DPA announces dues will be lowered to anywhere between 1%-1.75% depending on where you read the website yet the constitution says they will go up without MEMRAT to 2.25% next year. ALPA can't raise dues today without a vote.
• They say that FPL is bad yet they increased FPL for all volunteers including those that don't get FPL like that today over today's limits and pay for it out of the budget since they will take that money value assigned to the contract and spread it amongst the pilots. No, wait, make that the reps as the FPL is going up the money would go to them not the CBA.
• USAPA payed over $7 million in legal fees to SSM&P in less than 4 years after the vote. SSMP&P is charging 50% of their $250 fee, per their contract, with the rest outstanding after certification, yet the DPA has mysteriously paid a number so small that it can only be called incidental costs from the DPA logs. Where's the legal bill?
• There's a second law firm on the DPA books that has charged more to the DPA than SSM&P so far. Who could that be possible?
• New hires, pilots returning from disability and MILOA can't be reps for 2 years, nor could a pilot from a merged airline because of the 2 year good standing rule
• New hires have to pay a maintenance fee their first year. Not about money, right? :rolleyes:
• Look through the USAPA LM2 and see the 6 figure employees they have. You want to know why? That's what good help costs today.
• "A contract which is understandable, enforceable and beneficial to both parties and should not exceed 200 pages." Really? Beneficial to the company? An iron clad 200 pages?
• Voting on everything and everybody. Where will you find the time?
• 25% of the pilots in a block to get a resolution passed vs simply majority at an LEC today? Harder to use the pilots will.

The DPA foundation is cracked and the building plan hasn't been permitted. You can't create a new union from scratch overnight after firing every ALPA volunteer (The DPA Clean House Doctrine) and employee and magically have it up and running on day 2. I know it doesn't matter for you as you already think that no volunteer can think for himself and is controlled by Herndon. That's the insulting part.You claim it's not about the local guys and then say they are all under mind control.

You see hate? Stop looking in the mirror.

Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1476863)

Last I checked we have 139 B757-200s, 16 B757-300s, 16 B767-300s, & 69 A320s. And what defines "early generation?" Are you implying that Delta is parking all these airplanes by the end of the announced deliveries?

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1476814)

DL employed 10,400 pilots in 2001. I was 6822 when I got my seniority number in 2007... we are at 11,800 after merging with Northwest which had ~5500 pilots. The numbers speak for themselves! Timbo was speaking on reality when it comes to past actions in regard to growth.

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1476904)

Go on Delta Net and search "Fleet" or "Aircraft Fleet Information." You will get a handy little booklet of our fleet specifics. An even better source is Performance and Planning >> Fleet Data Sheet. This might give you a decent road map of what's likely to get parked first. I think any web board speculation is useless for what might happen in 2015. With much of the current mainline fleet having very little capital cost involved the Company can react quickly.

Depending on how the Company fills in, it looks like Slowplay's comments about Contract 2012 being a better scope deal than the old 3 for 1 above a mainline fleet of 767 could certainly be the case. Especially considering management could have used a pump and dump on us.

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1476871)

Now it would be interesting if some of these airplanes came out Airbus new plant in Mobile - Brookley with sub assemblies from Seattle. That facility should be making airplanes in 2015.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1476814)

How was anything that I said gloomy?

You're the one going "ho hum" over an Airbus order, btw...

Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1476836)

Ask yourself folks, would you want the A321/739 to pay equal to a B767-300 if it meant it could give another pilot group who does NOT have WB jets a WB argument?

IOW, if we merge with say....Alaska.....could an arbitrator consider a 737-900 the same as a B767? I mean, if Delta ALPA considers a 737-900ER equal to a 767-300ER, then what does that do for us in an arbitrated ISL situation?

Originally Posted by Justdoinmyjob (Post 1476906)

We actually had more pilots. I was hired Jan 2001 and my initial seniority number was 112XX.

Originally Posted by capncrunch (Post 1476920)

Wow, this is the seed of the tree ALPA will be selling us soon.

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1476919)

Did not get to enter commentary ... just wait until your kid(s) get older. When you hear "I've got to poo poo" you have two choices:
- Run like your hair is on fire
- Wait 3 minutes and hear "in my pants." At that point you've become a bad father & your wife tells her friends she can't trust you with the kids while you scrape poo off of whatever it has become crusted on and do laundry.