RalphWiggum

1,500 hours for one group of applicants, there's no telling the flight time requirement for the rest.. I believe the Dbag requirement is more informal, but they do a solid job screening for this.

RalphWiggum

He never once mentioned labor costs as a direct correlation in the ability for majors to compete with us on ticket price. In your mud slinging you seem to forget the sacrifice 400 pilots of this company made in 2010 for the future of not only this pilot group but the collective bargaining at all ALPA carriers. When fuel costs decrease at the level we are seeing, it allows the majors to increase downward pressure on competition, or come up with hair-brained schemes to better compete (Delta base fare). Then, just like Song and Ted were over 10 years ago, the next time crisis hits they will be part of the record books.

The money will be there in our next contract. So will all the work rules we have fought to preserve, so we can actually have lives and interests outside of the cockpit. Ask one of us what the 4 days off are worth. Or line bidding. Or the transition. Or our healthcare options. There's plenty of work to be done in the next contract, but leave that fight to us.

What has your union's negotiating strategy done for you? Congratulations, you've voted down ONE TA in company history. Quite a bit of chest beating for the same pilots that gave up what they did to "save" the airline in bankruptcy. Way to help the company keep labor costs low!!

Do us all of favor and go back to your golf cart in peach tree city and continue to boast to all of your neighbors about how great being a Delta pilot is and how the MD88 is a "real airplane." Then gladly send me a PM the 1 time a year you get west of the Mississippi River and we can have a beer and I can prove to you in person, that I am more educated than you and plenty of your 1000 hour Delta wonder coworkers. Until then, kindly shove it

JoeyMeatballs

Nailed it! Well done, Sir! Absolutely brilliant.

Rainbows

Very nicely done. But, I think we're feeding this troll. Most delta pilots are douchebags, every time I commute on them, I get the same look down the nose and "you have your application in at Delta to get away from Spirit, right?" Um, no. Then I get the higher-class pilot snub.

JasonLeonard

"Don't you want to do something productive with your life????" SMH

Normann

Is Window_S real? It sounds like some good old trolling. Either that or hiring standards are way down at DL.

So he went from Skywest to Delta like what 2 years ago and now he is giving us an education about unions, labor hostile airlines, etc.

How would you have done things differently working for a 30 airplane airline that just barely escaped bankruptcy a year or two prior our TA? All while the nation's economy just went through a major recession. Did Delta have top contract back when it had 30 airplanes? The whole freaking nation had to finance your awesome airline in 2001. You are welcome by the way. If this does not ring a bell it is because you were in high school still.

You must have tremendous experience. So Dudley... please tell us this: What have you personally done to achieve the last DL contract that you are so proud of? ... huh? ... do I hear "Nothing"? That is right! I forgot. You were not even on the property. You were not even a union pilot. You worked for a union busting airline that has cannibalized ASA, Expressjet and whoever else. What a record!

Please stop posting. You are embarrassing real DL guys.

Green Giant

College educated with multiple type ratings A$$h@le. Go back to that miserable flight deck where the other pilot looks out his side window and ignores you because even your own pilot group can't stand flying with you. We don't need your negative attitude here.

P.S. I have a Masters Degree; care to tell us about your education?

Flyn2low

He's a ball licker. Moving on.

Silver02ex

Delta guys seems to talk bout the money. I have never heard them talk about how great their QOL is, or how they can manipulate their their schedule, to get more time off.

IWalkJun12

I read it in their contract. All they can do is chaos