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Guess that your don't include Compass and Mesaba, or Shuttle America. Growth by larger equipment and seat miles is still growth.The only people negatively effected in the short term are the regionals that will have their growth stopped.
These airplanes are growth directly related to the transfer of NWA's flying. I am not the only pilot who thinks so, "ALPA Watch," a group of NWA pilots published their thoughts:
I'm changing my vote to "no" because I just can't abide our failure to stop the transfer of the DC9 flying off the seniority list....the probability of a post merger DAL needing to downsize seems inevitable. So the question becomes which pilots will be displaced out of seat, base, equipment or furloughed. What if the first targets of that downsizing are all former NWA fleets, piloted by former NWA pilots, such as the DC-9 and the B747-200. Former NWA pilots would bear the brunt of those displacements and furloughs.
Frankly, I don't know what happened in the SLI negotiations, I do not know why "a yes vote protects more jobs than a no vote," or why "scope doesn't work and isn't needed." Without the SLI, I'm not even sure what this contract means. There is too much I don't know and those who have explained it are not giving answers that I consider to be correct. I frankly and earnestly think Occam has it wrong on scope and wrong on Compass.
Maybe it is just the seasoned paranoid pilot coming out in me, but my vote is to set the parking brake.
I'm certainly not suggesting to anyone else how they should vote and there are a lot of "pro's" for the JPWA. I want to see NWA pilot equity on day one. But to me the fact that DC9 pilots are going to be looking to take my job as OUR MEC's allowed the outsourcing of their flying overwhelms my egalitarian bias.
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