Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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It's unfortunately true. Delta hiring is finding out what make up the seniors there which is likely similar to other regionals. They are mostly stuck there for a reason with of course a few exceptions. The liability involved would be interesting to see given how bad so many have blown the screening yet go back to fly delta pax.
Who, pilot John Doe? Well our records, backed up by Federal qualification standards, show he was fully qualified. He just didn't meet all of our personality requirements at the time. Perhaps he didn't know enough DL logo history, or his shoes weren't shined enough. We were still going to hire him, but he wore a blue tie to the interview, so...
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BB, I agree with much of what you strive for, but this is one of the reasons I am NOT in favor of bringing their whole list onto our list. I've heard the initial SSP guys have a roughly 50% acceptance rate. I don't want to sound harsh, but I don't want someone in my right seat that Delta doesn't also want there.
This is a mainline scope problem with a mainline scope solution. Reduce the allowable airframes to be outsourced and operate them here, with new hires at the bottom of the list. Simply gifting seniority numbers to regional pilot groups and/or placing them into our MEC does nothing whatsoever to change the fact that the airframes they fly are outside our scope line. CPZ being in the DL MEC was rediculous. The planes were still outsourced for incredibly low pay and benefits, they still had a separate contract and extremely limited leverage with a fairly weak long term contract. The only "link" was the flow, which was preserved either way anyway. If they were still part of the MEC, all that would do long term would be to set up DALPA for a DFR.
Even though CPZ would make the most sense of the bunch, the concept just doesn't work or do anything to reduce outsourcing or its negative effects. It doesn't bring the flying to this side of the line at all. Not by a single jet. And even if we re-annointed CPZ and somehow made it work, what about all the other "DCI" carriers…most (if not all by now) who fly for other legacy airlines as well. So regionals with numtipile seniority numbers at multipile carriers? Not going to work.
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We have a new Negotiating Committee Chairman. Good man for the job, IMO.
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A lot of us stuck it out by telling ourselves (and our families) "It's only five years and then the majors will be hiring again"
Many of us could replace our regional pay tomorrow, but haven't bailed because we still want a possible career at the majors. Take that away and watch a thousand regional pilots turn in their two-week notice.
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Eliminating age 65 would not solve the regional pilot shortage. On the contrary, many of us in our 30s/40s will look at the stagnation of the last 10 years and decide it's not worth sticking around if "paying our dues" means another ten years in the minor league.
A lot of us stuck it out by telling ourselves (and our families) "It's only five years and then the majors will be hiring again"
Many of us could replace our regional pay tomorrow, but haven't bailed because we still want a possible career at the majors. Take that away and watch a thousand regional pilots turn in their two-week notice.
A lot of us stuck it out by telling ourselves (and our families) "It's only five years and then the majors will be hiring again"
Many of us could replace our regional pay tomorrow, but haven't bailed because we still want a possible career at the majors. Take that away and watch a thousand regional pilots turn in their two-week notice.
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Compass was a part of our MEC. The converse of your own statement is, "If you are a member of the Delta MEC then you are a Delta pilot, I don't know how else you could look at it."
An obversion which demonstrates the logical error of dividing us from members of our own MEC, regardless of how you characterize the f-NWA design.
Rather than trying to tie together the logical breaks in the line you use to define professional pilots as "barbarians" I suggest the method used to successfully civilize more barbarians than any other, annexation. When we learn to acquire and incorporate our fellow professionals in unity, our numbers, thus our power, grows.
Scope is a leading indicator for bargaining results. If we've learned nothing else out of the last two decades, when we are able to more broadly define who are Delta pilots, we win gains in pay and working conditions.
An obversion which demonstrates the logical error of dividing us from members of our own MEC, regardless of how you characterize the f-NWA design.
Rather than trying to tie together the logical breaks in the line you use to define professional pilots as "barbarians" I suggest the method used to successfully civilize more barbarians than any other, annexation. When we learn to acquire and incorporate our fellow professionals in unity, our numbers, thus our power, grows.
Scope is a leading indicator for bargaining results. If we've learned nothing else out of the last two decades, when we are able to more broadly define who are Delta pilots, we win gains in pay and working conditions.
Saying that you are really a Delta pilot anyway because you have a widget on your jet, it says Delta on your paycheck, you are a "division" of Delta, you are also an ALPA member, etc... is just another way of storming the castle.
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