do you know the dates each contract (chq and shuttle) expires?

They better not be! It's bad enough that they still fly for us now!:mad:

Anyone know if we will be short across the board or just in certain bases or certain planes?? Have heard that everything will be short... wanted to know what different bases and people are saying!!!

Dunno about the rest but I'm getting called alot in mem. Alot more than last year that's for sure. Got a 5am IA call this morning but I don't live in base and didn't have enough time to make it work. This summer ought to be fun. :eek:

Yes it is. But who said those airplanes are intended for the competition?We are very close to being back in negotiations and our own official publications from my LEC tell me things, in bold like:
That question is answered:... or Welcome to Compass/Republic/Mesaba First Officer Bucking Bar. What was flying that Boeing like? Well this is how we do things here.

The problem is with the economic analysis of what is a "standard mainline aircraft." As we have seen that definition moves all over the place. From 66 seat DC9's to 99 seat E170's.

Until we wrestle our union away from a economic analysis of job security to a view that every union member's job is equally important we are not going to stop this horse trading of job security and advancement for another pilots percieved (not real) pay benefit.

Delta is on record saying it's priority is cleaning up its balance sheet and reducing debt. It aint buying a large number of jets, yet. When it does buy, it will probably be fully tasked with the need to renew the 767, 757, and 747 fleets. We will probably hear our employer lacks the money for a narrow body replacement. But our partners, like SkyWest & Republic, have plenty of money and are eager to spend it, 'oh and by the way they are non-ALPA.

ALPA seems oblivious to the fact that its facilitation of outsourcing seriously erodes its power. ALPA should immediately claim its exclusivity over Delta flying. If it flies it should have an ALPA crew and preferably a Delta crew.

What is the difference between Republic leasing a jet from Bombardier and being contracted by Delta, and Delta leasing that jet itself? Why do we care? As a union we should simply take the position "We fly airplanes, We don't buy them." If it operates in Delta colors then it is flown by a Delta pilot and we don't care if Republic leases it, you lease it, or that fat dude on LOST buys the airplane with lottery winnings... we fly it.

Heyas Bar,

You are right on the mark.

We need people on the NC that understand that the negotiators are there to improve the job security and benefits of mainline pilots as a first priority.

Cooperating to make the airline run? Sure, but only as a secondary goal, and only where such goal coincides with the interests of the pilot group.

Make no mistake. 100 seaters are the next goal of management. As we saw the 76 seaters obviate the need for 100 seaters, 100 seaters will eliminate the 125 seat at the mainline. Delete the 70+ A319s and 30+ DC-9-50s and you now see the "Scope" of the problem we face.

You DO NOT need a aircraft of equal capacity to replace mainline flying, but rather an aircraft with the "economic envelope" to do the same job (more/ frequent 70 seaters to replace fewer 100 seaters).

Nu

So...I have been watching this healthcare summit all morning and I heard someone thank Obama for showing the public how useless these politicians really are!!!

Including his own (As Ben Stein said) "condescending" attitude... These guys are truly disgusting.

Pretty hard to whipsaw when you have contracts...

Nu,

Thanks