BILL LUMBERG
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So to be clear. The Delta pilots expected the Comair pilots to give something up out of their already humble contract to offset the training costs of putting Delta furloughees in Comair seats plus whatever scheduling burdens may come to the Comair pilot group from 20 - 30 furloughees a month being called back to mainline, which manifests itself as junior manning and extentions.
What seems to go unsaid in the Delta pilot group is that all ALPA furloughees were welcomed at Comair. In fact, I've flown with United and US Airways furloughees who didn't seem to have a hard-on about being here. The only pilot group that suffers from the much ballyhooed righteous indignation are the Delta pilots who seem to have this "birthright" sense of entitlement.
Look, the Delta furloughees could have simply been displaced to Comair and ASA aircraft had the DMEC championed a merged seniority list in 2000. They didn't. We're separate. You got what you wanted.
And before you respond with the old saw about how a merger was impossible, it is the right of union employees to "bargain collectively" under federal law.
So stop the sanctimonious pouting about being treated like everybody else. It just doesn't wash anymore.
WE ARE CRYSTAL.....
In that line of thinking....So you mean to tell me the hundreds of thousands of dollars your pilots incurred against my airline because of your strike is really not your problem?? Sounds pretty stupid huh?? Just like your arguement about the "burden" of junior manning (GASP)....
Nothing had to be given up by taking a furloughed pilot....I guess you must be deeply worried about your attrition rate now at your humble airline, I'm sure you stay awake at night worried who's going to pay for it....
In your typical arrogance, you point out the COST to your group of taking on a new-hire furloughee......It never even crossed the minds of the ASA people....I guess once more 70 seaters came into play, you welcomed everybody with open arms.....Pathetic..'
You're welcome for the strike payout and I hope your strike advanced your deeply humble Pilot contract.