Posted by ScopeCMRandASA on 09-29-2003, Negotiations & The Cost of "Heck No!" You think the Delta pilots were going to go after the RJs? Why would they do that? How many of their furloughees have gone to ASA? 10 maybe?
Or maybe they were going to go after the 70 seaters. Remote possibility at best, IMO. IMO again that was just a urban myth perpetuated by the Comair and ASA MECs. Hmm, that sounded like Surplus talking there for a second. The fact is that Delta is not an entry level job. Comair and ASA are. Look at the pay scales. Look at what we fly for, yes that includes me, and we expect to get respect? A laughable statement at best. Let's just say that they had gotten the 70 seaters, which of course they would not becuase Delta had much cheaper pilots to fly them for them legally. Would our pilots have been furloughed? No is the answer. 50 seaters are still coming and will come. Our growth would have slowed ever so slightly, but nonetheless would have been there.
Let me ask you, what claim have we laid to any flying ourselves? Let me guess, we can't because we don't bargain with our "true" employer. Wrong. What fragmentation protection did we have when we were purchased requiring us to be merged with Delta? answer:NONE. Do we have any flying in our contract now which could be "farmed" out in any way, shape, or form? Answer: YES. Truth, we do not have the answers. We are no smarter than the Delta MEC, and it boils down to who has the much, much, much, much, much better contract. All I'm saying is that we lose this RJDC thing, better yet, put it on the back burner. We have not exhausted all possibilities, we have only exhausted those which were solely on our terms, and left the Delta pilots no choice but to say pound sand. It doesn't need to be this hard, and we will lose in the end otherwise.
--a concerned regional pilot