Changes In Scope
#31
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Did regional flying shrink? Did mainline flying grow? I think it did, and that would be good for mainline Delta pilots. If true, and we can repeat, that would be good. If not, we should pass on the deal.
#32
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I won't completely trust the wisdom of 13,000 on scope unless I become confident that a thorough, fair and unbiased pro/con paper on the topic is made available (and openly debated) well before MEMRAT. I'd hate to see a TA get voted up OR down on bad information/misunderstanding and I don't think we can or should "wing it" on scope. Come to think of it, VB/TDY and VEBA are going to need significant informational material for the same reasons.
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My 2 cents:
I could live with more 76 seaters if a far greater number of 50 seaters are parked and total RJ lift decreases and mainline lift increases - with the right deal. This mean no more seats, no higher MGTOW, just a few more 76 seaters.
I know allowing more large RJs is very distasteful, Me and 1100 of my closest buds had a unpaid vacation due to the RJ proliferation from 2000-2005, but times have changed.
I could live with more 76 seaters if a far greater number of 50 seaters are parked and total RJ lift decreases and mainline lift increases - with the right deal. This mean no more seats, no higher MGTOW, just a few more 76 seaters.
I know allowing more large RJs is very distasteful, Me and 1100 of my closest buds had a unpaid vacation due to the RJ proliferation from 2000-2005, but times have changed.
That can change in the blink of an eye! Remember the financial crisis of 2008 and age 65? You are aware that overseas carriers have retirement ages beyond 65 and financials across the oceans on either side are not looking real hot.
Despite SEA being a hub, the carveout for LAX remained in the TA- they could still fly to and from LAX and from LAX and SEA to any non-DL airport.
They showed up, they just went to foreign carriers.
I wonder how the former AAL Fokker 100 and NWA DC9-10 pilots would've felt about seeing a CRJ-900, MRJ or E-Series parked next to them? Exactly, it would've been nuclear.
Stop making the same mistakes and trying to justify bad decisions of the past. Scope is not for sale, your generation did not manage it well. We all have an employment contact with DL, Section 1 is the only link to the rest of that flying.
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Same generation.
People were hired and truly convinced that they were an extension of airline management and subsequently jumped headlong into "problem solving" that ultimately destroyed their own leverage. Despite all that has happened to us and around us- even today and clearly what will happen tomorrow- some from the same generation cannot let that strategy go. This is where its incumbent upon union leaders who have all the data, to see the strategies at play and negotiate in good faith for the people they represent. When you guys start showing up at condos, golf courses and birthday parties for management you weaken that bond and in their eyes, they stop respecting you. How does an enemy view a traitor from the other side?
People were hired and truly convinced that they were an extension of airline management and subsequently jumped headlong into "problem solving" that ultimately destroyed their own leverage. Despite all that has happened to us and around us- even today and clearly what will happen tomorrow- some from the same generation cannot let that strategy go. This is where its incumbent upon union leaders who have all the data, to see the strategies at play and negotiate in good faith for the people they represent. When you guys start showing up at condos, golf courses and birthday parties for management you weaken that bond and in their eyes, they stop respecting you. How does an enemy view a traitor from the other side?
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Also, the "1.5 year captains" for now are an outlier for the plug positions in the lowest paying planes in the (by far) least desirable base of pretty much any airline. We'll see if it stays that junior, but regardless we'd have those same bid results by now regardless of C2012. There is mathematically no other way it could have turned out.
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We have GOT to drop that dangerous line of thinking. Gee what if we let them fly a single 777 at DCI, but we all got a trillion dollars! See everything is for sale! :roll eyes:
Just, no.
That is deeply flawed logic that, once the premise is even accepted, begins the process of us negotiating with ourselves for our very jobs. There are certain "red lines" we cannot allow to be crossed. The concept that we are going to get these massive gains for asinine stuff like further scope sales needs to be shut down hard. How about that original "just 20 seventy seaters"? Turns out that was just the initial order of 20 they made anyway. We keep getting played, HARD, on this.
Time to say no and treat the subject as an absolute moral issue.
Not everything is for sale.
#38
Nope.
We have GOT to drop that dangerous line of thinking. Gee what if we let them fly a single 777 at DCI, but we all got a trillion dollars! See everything is for sale! :roll eyes:
Just, no.
That is deeply flawed logic that, once the premise is even accepted, begins the process of us negotiating with ourselves for our very jobs. There are certain "red lines" we cannot allow to be crossed. The concept that we are going to get these massive gains for asinine stuff like further scope sales needs to be shut down hard. How about that original "just 20 seventy seaters"? Turns out that was just the initial order of 20 they made anyway. We keep getting played, HARD, on this.
Time to say no and treat the subject as an absolute moral issue.
Not everything is for sale.
We have GOT to drop that dangerous line of thinking. Gee what if we let them fly a single 777 at DCI, but we all got a trillion dollars! See everything is for sale! :roll eyes:
Just, no.
That is deeply flawed logic that, once the premise is even accepted, begins the process of us negotiating with ourselves for our very jobs. There are certain "red lines" we cannot allow to be crossed. The concept that we are going to get these massive gains for asinine stuff like further scope sales needs to be shut down hard. How about that original "just 20 seventy seaters"? Turns out that was just the initial order of 20 they made anyway. We keep getting played, HARD, on this.
Time to say no and treat the subject as an absolute moral issue.
Not everything is for sale.
And regarding the 777 thing..... Really?
Al that being said, I think the 50s will die on their own so none of this is probably necessary, but all this angst is much ado about nothing.
#39
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Your logic is flawed. Deeply. Our jobs? I'll betcha that in the not too distant future we are gonna hire into the left seat, and you are worried about a handful of RJs.
And regarding the 777 thing..... Really?
Al that being said, I think the 50s will die on their own so none of this is probably necessary, but all this angst is much ado about nothing.
And regarding the 777 thing..... Really?
Al that being said, I think the 50s will die on their own so none of this is probably necessary, but all this angst is much ado about nothing.
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