The process is what is flawed.
The Nic award as it stands is no more palatable to the East crews as it would be to the West if the award went DOH without a single restriction or fence, and a returning furloughee could go out to PHX and bump a CA out of his seat. But somehow, an East pilot who had every expectation of being a widebody CA the last 10 years of his career losing that to a pilot group that didn't have a single widebody on property is OK?
DOH is not a land grab. It is the only way to protect what is the only thing you have in the aviation business at your airline....seniority. Conditions, restrictions, and fences are then used to keep one group from disadvantaging another. I don't recall a single condition or restriction in the NIC award other than the age 60 widebody restriction, which went bye-bye with age 65 retirement.
Implementing the NIC award for the East pilots was career suicide.
General....must be nice to pontificate from your high and mighty perch on DAL's list about how special you must be to be a Delta pilot. Give it a rest buddy. Many pilots only get one shot at this career. They take the job they get. Only by the grace of God do you get to the finish line. A little humility please.
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The process was just fine. The only thing flawed was the east's subsequent way of 'handling' it. It flies in the face of civilized society, and other than a few sympathizers, the rest of society gets it. The jury made up of our fellow citizens sure didn't have any trouble seeing it for what it is. And contrary to east whining, they got to hear PLENTY of all your 'waa waa waa, it wasn't fair, we had to do this..' bs.
If our pilot groups had been the same size, you wouldn't have had the ability to pull everything you did. You would have been stuck either voting no on the contract until you were blue in the face or finally wised up. Just like what would have been the west's only option had it felt similarily aggrieved.
After what has been done to the west, RICO suits, bs ID theft allegations, and every other heavy handed underhanded activity usapa, why the Hell do you feel like anyone needs to show the east any humility? The east didn't do much to earn it.
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