DPA Chairman?
07-22-2015 | 02:22 AM
#62
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Exactly, they can buy 100 A320Neos with 4000 miles range, send them to Europe, and South America, while international DCI can do the A380 routes to everywhere else. Then they can get all the awards that foreign carriers always get. OR, they could have taken that 6 billion in buy backs, and made us the best in the world.
07-22-2015 | 02:25 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Interestingly, the latest TA had a provision to allow the chairman of DALPA to release the paint job to international codeshare airlines, if he/she so chooses. If the chairman were to release the paint job to foreign carriers, a Delta pilot is just as likely to fly a widebody again as they are to fly an RJ again.
Originally Posted by TA15
a carrier engaged in international partner flying will maintain a separate operating and corporate identity from the Company including, but not limited to, name, trade name, logo, livery, trademarks or service marks.
- 90-100 seat flying secured at mainline
- A minimum of 454 jobs, additional to meet the increasing ratio of mainline to DCI flying
- An increase, which would have doubled the mainline percentage of domestic flying since the merger, at a minimum (the actual flying would have had to been higher to account for seasonal variation)
- A likely* increase of 1,400 jobs (depending on how much over the minimum requirement Delta flew ... very hesitant to make promises on behalf of management because their plans do change, but 90 airplanes flying 3,300 a year = 297,000 BH. The average Delta pilot actually operates about 65 hard hours a month. Do the math and make whatever assumptions you want about the fleet ... I still think the future is bright)
- Pay rates for this flying which were $11 above the 2011 NWA 747 Captain rates, above the pre-C12 767ER Captain Rates, yet it was called a "B Scale"
- Much better alter ego protections preventing the use of corporate shell games to evade scope (ie Freedom, GoJets, and RAH corporate shenanigans)
- Removal of the exception for Republic Airlines Holdings
- Affiliate and Control language to prevent international Certificates of Convenience
- A real structural bridge to further recovery of DCI codeshare flying, back to mainline pilots via a common type
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07-22-2015 | 06:12 AM
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07-22-2015 | 06:36 AM
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Bar, that protection is not needed, it's already in there, all that new section did was empower one man to make a huge scope change. However, you can put that in the new TA, but it should be memrat decides, not the chairman.
07-22-2015 | 07:05 AM
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I think it is possible to negotiate that down to 50% +/-5% in the next TA. Maybe we can give up our vacations for that change. But, in return we could get the company to give us a $50 trainer fuel card for the low processing fee of $60.
07-22-2015 | 07:12 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
MEC Chairmen have filed and settled scope grievances. The 76 seat scope grievance was one of the more recent examples. Not sure why those who wrote the TA felt the need to elaborate.
07-22-2015 | 07:14 AM
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07-22-2015 | 09:52 AM
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This is yet another reason why I never want you within 100 yards of our Section 1 ever again.
Carl
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