No kidding. I've got the gain turned up on my radar for just that scenario.

Management could use some more RJ flying awards to induce current operators to amend contracts.

Disregard found it....

Nu,

1) The first problem with a simple "polling rep" lies in the access to information. This is particularly true now that we get regular briefings from Delta under NDA's (which is both a blessing and a curse). Your rep has to know his people, poll them often to make sure he does the best he can, but utlimately, you rely upon judgment and experience AND a willingness to faithfully represent his group. Sending a "pollster" to the MEC is like sending a one-armed man to a wrestling match. I like the idea of seeing new blood, but that doesn't mean I don't want the most effective, most intelligent person up there.

2) I'm sure (I hope, anyway) you're kidding about all councils being the same, and wanting the same things. Different councils have different interests, for different reasons. This is especially true when it comes to simple issues, such as commuting, and reserves, co-terminal stuff, etc. We also have different cultures, and different approaches.

Where did you look to figure out what happened to your relative seniority in position? And why is the same information repeated over and over again in the AE? Anyone?

The rep has to take everything into consideration, the pilots inputs and other information that may not be available to the pilot population. The decision may not be popular, but should always be in the plots long term interest...which may not be obvious at the time.

The different councils will have parochial interests, than its up to the various reps to convince the others of their needs.

Where I would like the line pilot to have more input, and possible even a direct vote is for the National ALPA officers.

So you can look it up by category displacing from, or category displacing to.

Too bad "Amen" is less than ten characters long...

How about, "Amen!!!"

I looked in the last 1/2 of the award and saw that 2 people came into the list ahead of me and 8 people came in behind me. Or, was that the first 1/2? It was. Wait. The second 1/2 showed that 8 people were displaced, so I'm 2 numbers junior to where I was before.

Holy Cow. Learning some of this South stuff for me is like catching fish barehanded. Once I think I've caught it and tell everyone, I realize I never had it at all. In about an hour I'll convince myself again that the AE shows I'm 8 numbers senior to where I was. The bottom line is that I know nothing.

New K Now

They usually publish a future category list soon after the bid is published where you can find how how far you got pushed down. ;-)