And THAT, my friends, is why no one but a Delta pilot likes Delta pilots. Unbridled arrogance. I'm just "feed". A "tiny minded" "commuter pilot". Judged to be an insignificant person of useless opinion because of the airplane I fly by a Mighty double Breasted Delta Pilot.
Not at all. I am quite popular amongst my comrads, which include a broad spectrum of mil, civ, regional, majors, and even non-airline. You just can't seem to accept the fact that the job of ASA is primarily feed. You feed people to larger jets. Comair does the exact same thing, with the exact same jet. So do about 6 other airlines. The amount of work doled out to you and others is directly related to what the Delta pilots negotiate in their contract. Delta pilots negotiate, on a regular basis how much work you get. It is no more or no less than that. Your ego can't seem to understand that you are in a support role. Just because you cannot accept it, does not make it so. No amount of breath holding, blame casting on Delta pilots, topic switching, foot stomping, or fit throwing on flightinfo is going to change that fact.
Maybe all regional pilots in service of Delta should stage a week long walk out. Then we'll see how insignificant we are to you and your "career". After, all, Delta can get feed "anywhere", right?
Sure, could happen. If so, skywest pilots would just pick up the slack. BTW, no where did I say that you were insignificant. Feed is VERY significant. Without feed, we don't make money. At the same time, we could provide our own feed. There is nothing contractually against Delta pilots doing 100% of Delta flying. There would also be nothing precluding Delta pilots from actually putting 100% of Delta flying in our contract. You cannot say the same thing.
Now, back to the topic, your MEC can staple us to your list with the stroke of a pen, and it costs you nothing. Yet they choose to continue building higher walls between us (exclusive scope). And management is digging under those walls with a golden shovel. Yet all you can put out is arrogant rhetoric about how you control us, ha ha.
This is where you are incorrect, and where your inexperience shows. First of all, there is no ever was, any way of legally putting you on our list. Never had to be done legally, probably never will. Compare that to NWA pilots. If the companies merge, they will have to legally be a part of a combined list with us according to our contract. Even if we desired to put you on our list, there would be a cost that would have to be borne. An easier strategy for Delta is to merely have multiple agreements with multiple carriers. This ensures that you as a single pilot group never have enough leverage to do significant damage to Delta's overall structure. As far as controlling you, I never said that nor do I think that. What my pilot group DOES control is the amount of flying that gets subcontracted, and it would appear as if one of those subcontractors is about to become one of us and us one of them. That increases leverage even more on our side of the fence. Feel free to argue, I just suggest that you accept your reality so that you may appear more rationale.
Y'all just don't get it and mark my words, it will be your demise. We "commuters" will be providing "feed" for your successor long after the almighty Delta Air Lines has gone the way of Braniff, Pan Am, TWA, Eastern and many other greater Air Lines.
No doubt that Delta will cease to exist some day. If that happens, circumstances usually exist, as they did with the aforementioned airlines whereas those pilots manage to find decent jobs paying a wage similar to what you are making right now. IOW, the vast majority of those pilots were assimilated, found jobs elsewhere, started successful businesses. We have several of them here at Delta.
Now, here is another no doubt: ASA will be gone some day as well.
Some of us have already been at your job, and we will stay where we are. You want to stay where you are. Fine. Just realize your place in the world, and you be much less bitter.
