Something you all don't seem to be considering is the differences between the Delta PWA and the CMR and ASA PWA's.
The pay rates are the least of the problem. What costs reall money is the Delta pilot's relative lack of productivity coupled with their medical and retirement programs.
If the Delta pilots want to keep their work rules, retirement and medical benefits, they would have to go way below the pay scales at CMR and ASA to match the numbers. Perhaps they are willing to do that in order to take this airplane from ASA and CMR.
If they succeed in taking the type either by transferring the current aircraft to their certificate, creating a new certificate and taking all future deliveries plus transferring the current a/c, by simply adding "new" 70-seaters at mainline or any combination of the above, it will NOT improve anything at CMR or ASA. If anything, efforts to keep the aircraft at CMR and ASA would require that both of them "lower" their present book rates to less than whatever the Delta pilots might be willing to do it for.
To put it simply, there is NO WAY that placing the 70-seaters at Delta mainline can benefit ASA and Comair pilots. If you're a Delta pilot, I can't really blame you for pretending that it would. That's to your advantage. It is well known that you have "wanted" to take this airplane from CMR and ASA for a long time. The only thing that has prevent you from doing that is the Company, especially since the "union" is quite will to shaft its "regional" members if it benefits its "mainline" members. If you're an ASA or CMR pilot and you think this would be "good" for you, I suggest you do a lot of coffee smelling.
I would like to see all Delta pilots recalled from furlough. However, if they are recalled to fly CRJ700s, it will be at the expense of ASA and Comair pilots. Don't be gullible enough to think otherwise.
The pay rates are the least of the problem. What costs reall money is the Delta pilot's relative lack of productivity coupled with their medical and retirement programs.
If the Delta pilots want to keep their work rules, retirement and medical benefits, they would have to go way below the pay scales at CMR and ASA to match the numbers. Perhaps they are willing to do that in order to take this airplane from ASA and CMR.
If they succeed in taking the type either by transferring the current aircraft to their certificate, creating a new certificate and taking all future deliveries plus transferring the current a/c, by simply adding "new" 70-seaters at mainline or any combination of the above, it will NOT improve anything at CMR or ASA. If anything, efforts to keep the aircraft at CMR and ASA would require that both of them "lower" their present book rates to less than whatever the Delta pilots might be willing to do it for.
To put it simply, there is NO WAY that placing the 70-seaters at Delta mainline can benefit ASA and Comair pilots. If you're a Delta pilot, I can't really blame you for pretending that it would. That's to your advantage. It is well known that you have "wanted" to take this airplane from CMR and ASA for a long time. The only thing that has prevent you from doing that is the Company, especially since the "union" is quite will to shaft its "regional" members if it benefits its "mainline" members. If you're an ASA or CMR pilot and you think this would be "good" for you, I suggest you do a lot of coffee smelling.
I would like to see all Delta pilots recalled from furlough. However, if they are recalled to fly CRJ700s, it will be at the expense of ASA and Comair pilots. Don't be gullible enough to think otherwise.
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