Fact or fiction from NWA ALPA??

[737 Pylt]

Can anyone at NWA confirm that NWA ALPA is making statements to the press. DALPA has been quiet, leading me to believe these news articles are about as true as tanker clown is a real pilot!
NWA Redtail, fly4hire, Occam? Are you guys getting ANY feedback from your MEC?

737


Click here for link to article.

Delta-Northwest deal faces final hurdle

By Justin Baer in New York
Wednesday Feb 20 2008 12:05
Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) ' bid to merge with rival Northwest Airlines (NASDAQ:NWAC) may stall if their pilots fail to reach an accord on how to rank their members' seniority once the companies combine.
While the two groups have reached an agreement with Delta and Northwest on a new $2bn labour contract, they will not sign off on the merger unless they find common ground on a seniority list, which helps determine how much pilots are paid and what planes they fly.
"Most of our economic and contractual obligations have been resolved," said Matt Coons, a spokesman for the Northwest pilots. "While we're enthusiastic, we also know a pilot's career is tied entirely to seniority ranking. Short-term economic benefits are not worth sacrificing the possibility of advancement."

 

[Diesel-9]

Read a few things from ominous sources to the press. (leaks?). Nothing form the MEC. Sounds like nice pay raises. 20-30% for DAL/NWA over 4 years. Sounds like seniority is FAR apart.

 

[737 Pylt]

Read a few things from un-named sources (leaks?). Nothing form the MEC. Sounds like nice pay raises. 20-30% for DAL/NWA over 4 years. Sounds like seniority is FAR apart.

Diesel:
The "un-named" sources always cracks me up, but in this case they are actually quoting a "name."
That's why I was curious as to anything "official?"

737

 

[Draginass]

Seniority IS $$$.

 

[Tanker Clown]

Can anyone at NWA confirm that NWA ALPA is making statements to the press. DALPA has been quiet, leading me to believe these news articles are about as true as tanker clown is a real pilot!
NWA Redtail, fly4hire, Occam? Are you guys getting ANY feedback from your MEC?

737

For a guy who has me on his ignore list...you sure do spend a lot of time worrying about me. I'm a pilot. I may fly less a year than you...but I make a good bit more. Sorry. The numbers don't lie.

 

[737 Pylt]

Can anyone at NWA confirm that NWA ALPA is making statements to the press. DALPA has been quiet, leading me to believe these news articles are about as true as tanker clown is a real pilot!
NWA Redtail, fly4hire, Occam? Are you guys getting ANY feedback from your MEC?

737

For a guy who has me on his ignore list...you sure do spend a lot of time worrying about me. I'm a pilot. I may fly less a year than you...but I make a good bit more. Sorry. The numbers don't lie.

Yes they do, so do you when you tell everyone you're a pilot, let alone a human being! This is a discussion amongst pilots, not coffee getters!
Back to the trailer park with you!

737

 

[Tanker Clown]

Good one man. I get it. You are saying that I fetch coffee for a colonel. OK. You bet. Ahhhh good one? Trailer park? Just by compareing W-2s, you are a lot closer to the trailer park...and I can assume that's not too uncommon in GA.

 

[737 Pylt]

Good one man. I get it. You are saying that I fetch coffee for a colonel. OK. You bet. Ahhhh good one? Trailer park? Just by compareing W-2s, you are a lot closer to the trailer park...and I can assume that's not too uncommon in GA.

I'll post this one here since you must have missed it.

Tanker Clown:
I'm sorry you have/had cancer. Most of the people I know after having a "killer disease" are some of the most positive and influential people that I know.
I don't hate you that much, just a little. I'm not sure why you feel you have to come on here and insult anything/everything about the airlines, Delta in particular. I'm sorry you didn't/can't get hired, but there's always the re-interview process. Go out and get a job at a regional, build up some quality flight time, and re apply!
For someone who beat cancer, you sure have turned out to be one on this forum!
Please, go look in the mirror, thank God for every day you now have to live and try to be positive! I'm not sure why you have so much vitrol, but its quite obvious you are hung up on certain things. As you say, face it, chase it, and erase it.

One more thing, if you're going to use DK as your avatar pic, at least have the common courtesy to show a pic of his hot wife!

737

 

[Turtle21]

Can anyone at NWA confirm that NWA ALPA is making statements to the press. DALPA has been quiet, leading me to believe these news articles are about as true as tanker clown is a real pilot!
NWA Redtail, fly4hire, Occam? Are you guys getting ANY feedback from your MEC?

737

For a guy who has me on his ignore list...you sure do spend a lot of time worrying about me. I'm a pilot. I may fly less a year than you...but I make a good bit more. Sorry. The numbers don't lie.

Hell, I have more T-37 instructor time than you have total time! We used to call guys like you "pigeons" cause you had to throw a rock at them to get them in the air.:laugh: Get out from behind the desk already!

 

[Tanker Clown]

Hell, I have more T-37 instructor time than you have total time! We used to call guys like you "pigeons" cause you had to throw a rock at them to get them in the air.:laugh: Get out from behind the desk already!

I"m probably over 2k if you count my jumpseat time, UPT time, and the 40 or so hours I got in flight screening.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

That is just awesome.

 

[jke406]

I"m probably over 2k if you count my jumpseat time, UPT time, and the 40 or so hours I got in flight screening.

I'll take a somewhat confused air force desk jockey cancer survivor (Tanker Clown) over a deluded, egotistical, divisive pudknocker (737 Pylt/General Lee--yes, they are the same guy) every day of the week.

 

[Draginass]

Read a few things from ominous sources to the press. (leaks?). Nothing form the MEC. Sounds like nice pay raises. 20-30% for DAL/NWA over 4 years. Sounds like seniority is FAR apart.

YBGSM Diesel. Over FOUR YEARS??????!!!!!! CHUMP CHANGE. If true, those chumps are getting fleeced. After the raping they took at the hands of the company execs, that kind of offer is insulting. The coming inflation is going to eat a bunch of that up alone.

 

[Tanker Clown]

YBGSM Diesel. Over FOUR YEARS??????!!!!!! CHUMP CHANGE. If true, those chumps are getting fleeced. After the raping they took at the hands of the company execs, that kind of offer is insulting. The coming inflation is going to eat a bunch of that up alone.

No kidding. That will barely keep up with inflation. If you compare it to the 2000 pay rates adjusted for inflation it's a still a pretty significant paycut. These guys need to grab a pair.

 

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Can anyone at NWA confirm that NWA ALPA is making statements to the press. DALPA has been quiet,

737

Yes,and is the source of some of these "rumors." From CNBC:

A person close to the talks said Tuesday night that a small group of Northwest pilot negotiators want thousands of young Delta pilots to go to the bottom of the combined seniority list as part of agreeing to a deal. The person said that was a major hang-up.
But Greg Rizzuto, a spokesman for Northwest's pilots union, said Wednesday that the labor group is united, and all it wants is what's fair, noting that a pilot's career is tied to his or her seniority ranking.

I see Greg Rizzuto's name on a bunch of articles. Who is he? Some articles refer to him as Chairman, is he the MEC Chair?