I liked the “grow a pair” and “are you serious” comments. That is 100% correct. The mindset that DAL is going to “take care of us” needs to be adjusted a little. Delta cares about its shareholders and the bottom line. They willfully violate the contract and disregard the unions input with respect to schedules and people say “oh they’re just pushing back because we rejected TA1.” Another one, “they’re just laying the ground work for a tough negotiation for C2020.” I heard this verbatim last week.

This same person who made the above comment said that there is no way we maintain our PS with Delta making these record gains.

So, “are you serious” is a valid question. Likewise, “grow a pair” is a fair command. without the latter we are in for an interesting ride if we keep letting this stuff slide. Kudos to the MEC for operation “kill the SIL.” If I am on reserve and don’t show up for an assigned short call, I can’t just tell DAL to pack sand when they call me out on it. Likewise they can’t cherry pick parts of our PWA to violate without consequences.

Most eloquent job of proving my point.....thank you

PP,

His point is made without using terms to denigrate the person with whom he is debating. I think it detracts from the well rounded argument he made. YMMV

From what I posted, I have no clue how you came to the conclusion that I think DAL will take care of us..........Are you new here?

Denny

I think that allows for 3% more flexibility when adjusting schedules. I predict weekends will still be minimum coverage as reserves move off days and regular line holders drop weekends. The result will be minimum reserve staffing on desirable off days and roughly the same amount of greenslips.

Lol yes I am new, and I wasn’t saying that was your line of thought! There is a good size of our pilot population that thinks this way though. Example: the guy I was talking about in my post.

I want us to all be united and knock out a record breaking contract together. I was just pointing out that I liked his grow a pair lingo! Enjoy your Sunday evening fellas!

Enjoy your weekend too! I'm happy to see you were able to decipher my attempt at humor!

Denny

Yep. Doesn't matter now. The company got the SILs when they needed them.

They were probably going to need them this winter also.

Buck, my apologies. English as a second language and all, I misunderstood you. Your point came across as if 2% of
your pay was too much in order to hold Delta liable for not following
the contract.
I’m for once excited that our MEC is not caving to quality of life issues. Money is important ALONG with QOL.
Are we so fat that we are offering SILs? No problem, just make sure our guys can get vacation move ups and accept some of the RCC input, after all we are well manned. But Delta wants the best of both worlds. That’s their job. Keep costs as low as possible. Our job (and of our union) is to fight for what we deserve.
Your post came across as something ALPA would claim as recent as a year ago: “Let them break the contract. We will create an LOA to make sure they are compliant, otherwise our captains could lose $6k.”
Company expects us to play by the rules, so should they.

Not a problem. Now they have to carry the reserves. No biggie. I am on the fence on the whole thing tbh. I wouldn't bid one for 25 hours or frankly even 60. But there are plenty of guys that will. There is a vocal minority of guys that complained about this and got it pulled down. Just like the VB deal. "40 jobs" was the issue. And with all the hiring it was not even noticeable.

Enjoy the center seat DH.

/rant. time for a nap