Carl Spackler

Simple: The industry's LEADING contract. I'm not saying it has to lead by huge percentages, but it HAS to lead. There is no reason for the industry's best pilots who work for the second largest airline to accept anything less. Especially when that airline is so profitable.

There are many ways to achieve this. My method would be to shoot for SWAPA plus 5% plus premiums for larger aircraft above the MD88. That's just one way. The main thing is that it has to be the industry's leading contract...in EVERY section of that contract. If ALPA does this for us at the end of Section 6, I will consider ALPA to have been a huge success for us.

Carl

Carl Spackler

Totally incorrect. Read my above post. If you really were a rep for 6 years, you truly must have been an awful one. It's shocking how you could state what you've stated above because it shows such an amazing lack comprehension.

Wow. And I thought you were a serious person. You're just another ALPA apologist who cannot stand that some of us want to exercise our democratic right to vote in a new union. You respond to this effort not by trying to get ALPA to raise its game, you respond to it by the tin foil hat comments of revisiting the seniority list. Shameful. I know it's all you got, but it's still shameful.

Carl

Carl Spackler

Or people who need to lie about what's actually in the SWAPA contract...eh Pineapple Guy?

Carl

Ferd149

All the guys I've flown with for the last year (except maybe a relief pilot or two) have been RDs. ALL of the DPA supporters I've flown with have been RDs and NONE have mentioned any of the above as reasons for their support.

Ferd

PS.........I do want to see the hat become optional and a light windbreaker (vs the leather jacket) option for morning/rain walkarounds...........so I need to become a DPA guy? Just asking.

FIIGMO

Where is it???

The AE, where is it? What is the word on the street???

Ferd149

I agree. This is one of the items I like about the Delta vs NWA system.

Waves

Did you notice how it jarred the right flap section? They kind of move anyway, but generally not that much. I saw a Luftansa A-340 hit so hard that it actually bounced back up about 50 feet. I thought they were going off the runway, but they managed to regain control. Looks like this 747 pilot realized his late flare and tried to fix it, but too late. I'm sure glad I've never done anything like that; not even twice! Ok, Ok, my third landing in the 88 was so hard that I think it may have changed the orbit of the earth.

P.S. LOT landing: Some of the later articles are now contradicting the initial ones. Now they are saying the crew realized they were going to land gear up after reaching Warsaw and making several attempts to extend the gear. Although it's still a mystery as to why the Alt Gear Ext system failed, this account would make much more sense.

FlyingViking

DPA members as of today:

3856

and rising.

Carl Spackler

The ALPA apologists and shills can't move along Jack. This type of stuff is all they have left. They cannot raise ALPA's game so that we actually WANT them as our union, they can only denigrate anyone who wants to leave.

I'm tickled at the irony shown by this latest nonsense. For years, the ALPA apologists have shown utter contempt for anything whatsoever coming from USAPA. Now they list USAPA mailings as their SOURCES to prove their points. Hilarious! They use these USAPA mailings even though they're filled with statements like: "seems as though" and "looks like".

Truth is that Lee and Marty Seham are really tough guys. Really tough. They get results. They've successfully decertified ALPA, thus they will be hated by ALPA forever. Their latest success on behalf of the NBA referee's union is just another example. If any of these billing claims against Seham were actually true, don't you think they would have been disbarred by now? Or at least be on the losing end of a billing lawsuit?

Instead our usual ALPA apologists TOTALLY IGNORE the fact that our ALPA lawyers were fined and SANCTIONED by the judge in the TWA case for lying in court about an opposing counsel. But be sure you don't talk about that. Instead, just talk about alleged billing problems with the DPA law firm chosen to decertify ALPA.

Carl

Carl Spackler

Not at all. IF they are indeed working for half price, it's because going up against the embarrassingly bad lawyers of ALPA is just too easy.

Carl