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10-07-2014, 01:11 AM
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I don't get all the "rest" comparisons with truck drivers. In fact, it's a counterproductive analogy. LOTS more lives involved every time we get into the seat. Many more dimensions and complicating environmental factors. We accept far more risk and responsibility every single leg.
Apples to bananas.
Apples to bananas.
All in all though buzz, I agree with you
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10-07-2014, 02:03 AM
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Well now you are just jumping to conclusions. Paranoid much? I'm just saying that a truck driver has equal responsibility and rest to him is equally important. If you disagree and need to make yourself feel better about yourself than go right ahead. Explain why your rest is more important than a truck driver who can kill a bus load of kids for crossing the centerline while hand driving hours and hours.
10-07-2014, 02:59 AM
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Reading an article today about Delta that said the pilots were the only employees to lose their pensions in Chapter 11 and that is why our pension debt is so high compared to our peers.
Is that true?
If so, shouldn't DALPA be educating the pilots about this and sharing the number of our total pilot concessions? Over $15 billion and climbing?
Is that true?
If so, shouldn't DALPA be educating the pilots about this and sharing the number of our total pilot concessions? Over $15 billion and climbing?
Of those that still have a frozen pension, DAL is aggressively forward funding their obligations. (But you already know this)
10-07-2014, 03:43 AM
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10-07-2014, 03:44 AM
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10-07-2014, 03:47 AM
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10-07-2014, 03:56 AM
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Can we all agree that we're not truck drivers and move on?
10-07-2014, 04:05 AM
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My point was that just because we are "legal" doesn't mean we should start a duty period. A truck driver did that and went to prison for 5 years. So if we get CDO's, even if they are legal, and we head back home the next morning fatigued....you could lose a lot more than your job. That was my point, not that we should compare ourselves to truckers.
10-07-2014, 04:15 AM
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), anything. Just trying to keep a discussion factually based. When there is an issue about which we truly have cause for concern, it does not help that cause to exaggerate the issue by making factual misstatements.
10-07-2014, 05:31 AM
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I was neither disagreeing nor agreeing with, nor attempting to obfuscate (whatever that means), anything. Just trying to keep a discussion factually based.
When there is an issue about which we truly have cause for concern, it does not help that cause to exaggerate the issue by making factual misstatements.
), anything. Just trying to keep a discussion factually based. When there is an issue about which we truly have cause for concern, it does not help that cause to exaggerate the issue by making factual misstatements.
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