Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1025793)

Puff puff pass Nu! Puff puff pass! Stop screwing up the rotation.


:D

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1025853)

All true, but there was a sequential procedure to follow and the inexperienced MEC's followed it just like a checklist.

I have the unpublished "supposal" archived and it was a ASA and Comair merger by DOH with the result stapled below the last Delta pilot. Bidding protections from a flush might have been objectionable, but remember, this was an early edit of a proposal. (Interesting historical fact, I changed the names and re-posted the proposal as a format for a Delta / NWA merger and pilots from both sides liked the idea, if anyone remembers that thread)

There might have been other reasons the merger was a no go, but a Comair DOH demand was not one of them. Mostly the Delta pilots saw no benefit to capturing RJ flying ... and that probably has not changed.

Hope I don't "overplay my hand" when the Captain calls for the Before Takeoff
Check and I comply. (just kidding)

Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 1025846)

The CMR/ASA guys way overplayed their hand. You can't deny that some of their lifers saw a chance to leapfrog and said so openly. They all might be on our seniority list right now if they had been reasonable.

Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1025870)

After all, were the German pilots being "unreasonable" when they bombed Pearl Harbor?

Originally Posted by cencal83406 (Post 1025881)

Awful big typo there...:confused:

Originally Posted by cencal83406 (Post 1025881)

Awful big typo there...:confused:

Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1025870)

Reasonable to you and me (any Delta pilot or a Comair guy hired post-2001) are probably the same - Comair/ASA staple, no argument.

However, a 30-year Comair ALPA pilot probably had a different idea of "reasonable". I'm dissapointed that some were way too smug about it and pizzed in everyone's Wheaties (Delta and Comair). But they were coming from a different point of view.

After all, were the German pilots being "unreasonable" when they bombed Pearl Harbor?

Originally Posted by PastV1 (Post 1025888)

It's movie quote. "Animal House" John Belushi

Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1025886)

Buzz, want to help him out?