What would be wrong with a couple hundred guys sending this to a DP flyer:

Dear XXXXXXXX

I read your name on a list of pilots voluntarily flying pairing 123. As you know the company and the union have agreed to dispute this pairing. Since your voluntary actions will, in all probability, lead to me eventually being forced to fly this onerous trip; my I ask you how did it go? Should we tell those scheduling experts in the SIG they are wrong?

Please let me know soonest, and I will forward your comments to all my other friends heping to keep the Purple Promise.

In Unity,

Your Name Here



The last sentence is in case you want to use the company e mail.

So send it and see where it gets you.

I guess you see nothing wrong with the email than, thanks for your input.

I personally talk with everyone I know that voluntarily flys DP.

Only two so far this year.

Did not say that. I send send it and see what it gets you. Might get you a call from the chief pilot might get you a response from the pilot. Going to depend on the mindset of the pilot at the time he reads it.

I don't see anything threatening in that. I'm not sure that the best course of action is to have individual pilots writing directly to DP fliers though. I think the "education process" can be more effective if done from the union standpoint. IOW, pass the resolution, put the names out there and make it known to everyone that the names are out there. I wouldn't think it would be prudent to ever put something down in writing regarding the flying of disputed pairings. I don't like to write much at all. My main reason is, it is extremely difficult to convey emotion through an e-mail. What may have been written as truly sincere can come across as sarcastic or entirely different meanings can come out. For instance, I read USMCFDX's e-mails as very sarcastic. I also assumed he is a disputed pairing flier just by the way he "smelled a lawsuit" and said, "see what it gets you" regarding your letter. I may be wrong, but on this message board, that is the way I read it.

I see our former training manager who likes DP's has started blocking his calender... Might he be catching some heat?


7/32

I sent him an email to his AOL email addy on 10/14!

He and I went to Va Tech together and first met during our freshman in Sep 79 as he roomed with a HS buddy of mine! Since I knew I was probably gonna be stuck in MEM on reserve during the VT/BC game this Thur night, I asked if he wanted to get together to watch the game. Below my signature I wrote "BTW - what up with all the disputed pairings?"

He read the email on 10/15 (Read: 10/15/2007 5:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time) and shortly thereafter his calendar was blocked! Oh yea, he never responded to my email!

MD11Fr8Dog,
You Rock! His calendar blockage is proof you had an affect. Nice job.

That's now 2 that think so, including my 3 yr old daughter!

Can one of you DP experts explain why MD 11 Pairing 118 on 10 Nov is disputed without reciting the SIG reason? After you have rationalized that, take a look at 121 on 13 Nov, and explain why it is not disupted? THX in advance.