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Old 09-26-2014 | 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Flamer
I never said that. But, my money would be on a previous/current management/ALPA positions. You obviously may choose to believe as you will. I don't care. But something doesn't add up.
Sounds like a good investigative project for someone. Have a ball.





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Old 09-26-2014 | 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by tsquare
I have never posted anything on here that I have ever stated as anything but my opinion. Carl has repeatedly says he knows people, he has all the documents... crap like that, yet when confronted time and time again with facts that he MAKES STUFF UP.. he goes into attack mode... apologists, operatives... yada yada yada. Mine is opinion, his is BS.
Fair enough, point for tsqure.
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Old 09-26-2014 | 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Flamer
I never said that. But, my money would be on a previous/current management/ALPA positions. You obviously may choose to believe as you will. I don't care. But something doesn't add up.
You are welcome to hire a PD to investigate me too. Same deal as Carl.

I've already given my association with ALPA and the company. My ALPA experience was on the Compass PBS committee, which is nonpolitical. I have no association with DALPA outside of the new hire dinner and an email about the multi use bank. So there you go. Your spidy sense detected experience which I've already disclosed.
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Old 09-26-2014 | 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Oberon
You are welcome to hire a PD to investigate me too. Same deal as Carl.

I've already given my association with ALPA and the company. My ALPA experience was on the Compass PBS committee, which is nonpolitical. I have no association with DALPA outside of the new hire dinner and an email about the multi use bank. So there you go. Your spidy sense detected experience which I've already disclosed.
If you don't mind me asking... When did you learn to fly? How long have you been in this profession?
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Old 09-26-2014 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Scoop
Gloopy,

Can you please expand on what we paid for it? I have to agree with Herkflyr - the 5+15 ADG will be huge - it does not seem to me that we paid a lot - maybe I am missing something.

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Day one going from Noon to 10am was a QOL hit for all reserves and also a hit to staffing over all (including green slips, etc). Long call staying at 12 hours (13 then 12) when we were sitting on a slam dunk grievance that would have made it at least 19 was a huge savings to the company in staffing. Why do you think they "gave" us the increase in ADG in the first place? It was worth it to them. We were sitting on a huge "hammer" and we sold it.

Once again, the ADG increase was a gain. But we paid a lot for it.
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Old 09-26-2014 | 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
He is talking about Frontier airlines. RAH structured it such that winning a grievance was very unlikely.
That's your opinion and you're certainly entitled to it. My opinion is that the language could not have been more clear and in our favor. Had we grieved it, we would have won easily. It's a moot point now because not only did DALPA refuse to grieve it, DALPA agreed to codify the scope abuse as a new permanent section of our scope.

Originally Posted by sailingfun
Carl should tell what the code share was that made things so iron clad. It was a very small code share that generated less then 500,000 a year in total revenue.
So what sailingfun? It was iron clad language that required a minimum number of departures out of Tokyo Narita. It's now gone. DALPA negotiated it away. That's a fact.

Originally Posted by sailingfun
The company never stated they intended to simply ignore the contract and continue the code share. They came to us in advance and stated they would be out of compliance.
Read your first sentence, then read your second sentence.

Originally Posted by sailingfun
They could have simply dropped this one small code share which was a penny or two for the company and we would have had zero protections in the Pacific anywhere.
But they didn't did they. Instead they got DALPA to remove our minimum departures out of Narita. Also, I'm willing to bet that the code share was more than a "penny or two" for the company.

Originally Posted by sailingfun
We were able to negotiate a new scope agreement for the entire Pacific with virtually no leverage.
Incredible spin. We gave away our minimum number of departures out of Narita. We replaced it with more "iron clad" language (like the iron clad language we just gave up) to have a minimum level of Pacific flying. That level being 20% LESS than what we were currently flying. That's a fact.

Originally Posted by sailingfun
DALPA has made it clear that they intend to file a grievance when the company is in violation of the contract. That will be 1 APR next year.
DALPA has done no such thing that I've read. If I'm wrong, please post the language that makes it clear DALPA intends to file a grievance.

Originally Posted by sailingfun
The company has not made it worse in the cure period. All the numbers are available on the DALPA web site.
They have indeed made it worse. We're pulling down Europe flying during the cure period.

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Old 09-26-2014 | 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Jughead135
Thank you.

Should I read anything into the fact that all three examples you cite were about scope protection (lack thereof)? Is that simply the most vulnerable point, in your opinion, or just the first three that popped into your head, or...?
It's just the first three examples that popped into my head, although scope relaxation is a favorite desire of management and an equally desirous thing of DALPA to give away. There are many more examples.

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Old 09-26-2014 | 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by finis72
I don't agree with a poster so I'll just label him, real nice. Different opinions are what makes APC interesting. We all have a view and how long we have been at Delta doesn't make our view any more important. This kid has every right to express his/her views because C2015 is going to be just as important to him as it is to any of the anti DALPA crowd.
Come on finis, that's not what goes on here. The vast majority of disagreements go on with no labeling. It happens with a very small percentage of people and we all know who they/we are.

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Old 09-26-2014 | 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Alan Shore
They got a usable reserve system back,
That was a huge "hammer" that they needed. Desperately. If they pushed it to a grievance, they would have lost all or most of it. Slam dunk. This was critical for them, despite how cool they played it.

and we got back what we had before -- the ability for a long call pilot to turn his phone off for any length of time up to 12 hours, so long as he would then be in a position to report 12 hours after he turned the phone off.
We did get "what we had before" even though we gave up a lot more to get it.

We inherited a hammer we weren't expecting to get. Then we sold it for way less than market value. We did get a gain out of it though.
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Old 09-26-2014 | 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by tsquare
Carl has repeatedly says he knows people, he has all the documents... crap like that,
Since I've repeatedly done it, it should be easy to find. Please post where I've ever said that.

Originally Posted by tsquare
yet when confronted time and time again with facts that he MAKES STUFF UP.. he goes into attack mode... apologists, operatives... yada yada yada. Mine is opinion, his is BS.
Great opportunity for you to show your stuff tsquare. Happy hunting.

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