Pez D. Spencer said:
Surplus is dyed-in-the-wool Comair. Don't knock him for that.
You got that right. Maybe you've also noticed that all the Delta types writing on this board are "dyed-in-the-wool Delta."
I think that loyalty to your own family is not only important, it is essential. I don't criticise the Deltoids for their loyalty to Delta, it's a good thing. What pi$$es me off is their idea that we should be loyal to them before we are loyal to ourselves. I can't turn my back on my own brothers and sisters for the possibility of a better job at Delta at some time in the future or to gain any other kind of "favors" from them, whether rhetorical, political or financial.
Meanwhile they disparage us at every opportunity, their leaders go out of their way to shaft us and steal from us, they have opposed us politically for more than a decade and have never hesitated to use their money and influence within ALPA to shaft us whenever they could. When their company bought our company they did not hesitate to tell us that we were second class and unworthy of association with them. That's the kind of people we're dealing with.
We should love them and despise our own kind, because after all, one day they just might let us come to the big house and eat in their kitchen? Some people may be willing to kiss their butts to do that. I'm not one of those people.
Sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade. The truth is they don't like us, they don't want us, and they are doing what they can to get rid of us. For that I should love them? No thanks.
However, I will say this. We should note and be aware of which of them is vocalizing this attitude towards us. The Delta pilots that write in these forums are mostly junior pilots, most of whom have not been at Delta for more than three years, a few maybe 5 or 6. They just got their dream job with Delta and they're pissed because they're furloughed. They can't deal with it and they have to blame anybody but themselves, so they pick on us and get even more angry when they are not humored. Typical junior birdmen.
Their leaders however, are cut from the same cloth. Arrogant beyond belief and quite willing to stop at nothing to further their own interests. They may not say much in public but they do a lot in private, none of it in our favor, and they get angry and stomp their feet when they don't get their way. Typical of the spoiled and wealthy.
Our little airline will never offer the financial remuneration of a career at a large airline like Delta, and this tail isn't going to wag that dog anytime soon. I know this. Nevertheless, there are some things in life that are worth far more than money or power, and that keeps me from being willing to sell my sould for either. The loyalty and respect of your co-workers, your fellow pilots, is one of them. We have that at little Comair and I guess that's why I'd rather be a "dyed-in-the-wool-Comair" pilot, than a pimple on the backside of an alien culture that privately despises me and my kind. To each his own.
As a Marine would say, Semper Fi. (No, I've never been a Marine)
