The staffing slides in Touch and goes 12-06 sure painted a hiring picture with a signed TA.

I have to ask. Did the company and DALPA coordinate talking points on this?

DALPA saw the company's implicit promise of hiring...yet did NOTHING to refute it--and even played along with just enough couched language to retain plausible deniability now.

Why didn't DALPA say "C12 stands on its merits even if hiring doesn't happen for a while."

Probably because C12 did not stand on its own merits, and needed every equivocation and questionable interpretation possible to ensure it was passed.

DALPA is doing a fine job of serving as the company's pilot communications department. Why else are the apologists here, pretending "C12 is great! No changes needed! We knocked it out of the park!"

Come to think of it...is 76drvr (and others) a union guy or a company guy? There's a problem when we can't tell the difference.

[QUOTE=DAL 88 Driver;1576375]Captain in 9 years. Way to go. I would think many would like to have your career.
For additional perspective, I was hired hired 13 years ago am 9700 on the list cannot hold the most jr capt position in the company for another 6 years and do not crack 6000 until 2023.

I'm totally complaining. But 9 years...I would love to upgrade in 15 or 16 or 19 years. Just saying

Shouldn't that be "Even a nut finds a blind squirrel"?

Like I said, I'm not complaining... especially about that aspect. (Although it's not exactly as great as it sounds. I was a TWA new hire in 1989... so it took me 18 years in the majors to upgrade to Captain at 47 years old). As anyone who's been in this career more than a few years knows, it's all about timing and to a certain degree luck of the draw. It SUCKS to be a 2000/2001 hire at Delta. No doubt about it. I'm sorry you're having to endure that. Hopefully going forward we'll get some better representation (one way or the other) and at least SOME of the dollars you missed out on during "the lost decade" can be recouped. I hope so.

THANKS! Exactly as I thought. 7 phone calls. 3 different groups. Only one that was truly wrong. Curtis at ALPA

What did Curtis say? He's normally spot on. I question my conclusion if it's different than his.

I cannot begin to tell you how many times C has been wrong when I have dealt with him... Again, when I speak with him, I feel like I'm speaking with management... Know your contract!

I've only dealt with Curtis a handful of times, but he's been spot on and very helpful in my experience.

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