Thanks Columbia.

If legacy guys don't get "Animal House" references, I better start rethinking my career goals! :D

Call DALPA aeromedical.

Even better, call DPMA. Those ladies in the office at DPMA know more about any medical issue then just about anyone.

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As long as those pilots are placed behind current DAL pilots Im ok and excited with that. I have nothing against DCI pilots, but the majority of their A/C growth, hiring and success has been due in part by a large sacrifice and career degradation of Mainline pilots.

I would love that the RJ and the RJ pilots come on to our property (If they want), but I have a feeling the DCI pilots would want better than staple. Unacceptable.

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From what I can tell most of the senior ASA folks wouldn't be completely opposed to such a deal. They would definitely want to keep longevity for sick time accrual, vacation, non-rev...ect

having said that, it's been a few years since I heard that rumor.

They followed procedure. There is absolutely no evidence to support sailing's story, none. If it were true, there would be something, a memo, am LEC Comm piece, a scrap of some sort.

Why is that a big deal?

Glad I wasn't the only one who watched that.

I think the majority would take the staple, I have to go to the bottom of a major list, if I get hired, at some point anyway...the sooner the better. With this proposal it is possible that most people wouldn't even be near the bottom of the list as many regionals are actively hiring.

There would be a minority that would want more. I could think of a few people I flew with at my last regional that made the argument (The Joe Merchant w-2 argument, which I heard at my last carrier). They are wrong and I feel would be canceled out by most of us.

Just wanted to make sure that you weren't going to retreat from that stance. What about the clause in merger policy that allowed for prenups? Why did they not choose that portion of the checklist?

You and I have argued this time and time again. These "inexperienced" MECs knew exactly what they were doing. You know it and I know it. As it were, they had you waiting in the wings with a wealth of experience, knowledge, and legal ramifications.

Then you try to play the slam dunk angle with management just magically accepting the integrated list- ironically just as we were coming up for C2K negotiations and would be COMPELLED to use all available means in order to get management to accept the integrated list. Of course, the legal ramifications would again be waiting in the wings to insure the use of "all available means"

And then we have all of the former ASA/COMAIR pilots who had been hired by Delta, and who had a very good idea of what exactly both pilot groups were actually seeking.

Despite all of that, I completely buy your story, although you have stuck with it for over a decade :rolleyes:

But the napkins matched, the napkins man. The ulitmate operational integration card-the napkins

Back to your cookout with Merchant--who ran around telling everybody he could find moving on to Delta that they would be junior to their former co-workers.

I can't believe you are still spewing this garbage after a decade.

Being new to having a schedule, how often does scheduling run "swap with the pot" requests?