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Originally Posted by MD80
Don't get it.
1. Didn't NWA/Delta buy Midwest to block AirTrans growth?
2. Didn't blocking AirTrans growth protect your jobs?
Is ALPA an association to better the pilot profession or just the jobs at the new Delta? AirTran, Jet Blue and other airline pilots better note the answer to this question.
Sir;
I feel you pain. You are part of my hometown airline. I love MEH. I hate what heppened to you. In hindsight it would have been better to be acquired by AAI. No one could have predicted what has transpired in our economy in the last two year. You guys have always been a first class opp.
Now, even though I feel you pain, as do many of my fellow DALPA brethren, there is little we can do to force the issue so to speak. May have stated issues with the RLA. They are correct. Furthermore, our contract states hat MEH is operated outside the scope of our issues. It basically is its separate entity. It also leaves our hands tied. Legally there is nothing we can do. Yes, it is a game of "What nut is the ball under." It does not take a rocket scientist to see that. If MEH actually transferred those jets to DAL, you would have a valid argument. We would too.
Fact is that they did not. Even if we got your 717's, which is another issue, they would have come from Boeing, which as you know is an airplane maker not an airline. Ergo there is no precedence for a court case to bring you guys over to our cert as we did with other airframe acquisitions. Furthermore, if and when you guys go out of business, we may with the Milwaukee Airport board have the "Right of First refusal" of the MKE gates. Even then there is nothing that we DALPA or ALPA can legally do under the current laws.
I am sorry, but it is what it is. Change the RLA and you will be able to have a better shot at what you are demanding. I wish that this never happened to you. I know my parents are not excited at the prospect of AAI being the hometown airline.