JoeMerchant
ASA pilot
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- Mar 31, 2005
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-Joe-
-The RJDC is dead and gone-but it served its purpose well. The majors saw it as a seniority grab attempt, and the regional guys saw it as an opportunity to make a crappy temporary job into a somewhat respectable career. The true purpose of the RJDC was to split any bonds that regional pilots and mainline pilots had formed-and to have them at odds forever and henceforth. Both regional and mainline guys are still at each other's throats whenever the RJDC acronym crops up....
Face it-many people were had, and we are all still mad at one another over this organization, which I will always believe was the brainchild of someone high up in Delta mgmt. at the time. This person wanted to make sure the regionals and manline never became a huge, continuous bargaining group with common interests. The RJDC did an absolutely beautiful job of ensuring that this would never happen.
-Really-think back on the events of the time-does this scenario not make sense? Did it not look like the Delta mainline guys were starting to back up their regional counterparts a bit too much?
Where you even here when the events transpired? The RJDC didn't form until AFTER the ASA and CMR MECs filed for a single list...You are delusional if you think folks like General Lee and Scope out RJs will look out for your best interests with or without RJDC....
American/Eagle, USAir/USAir Express, United/UAX, and CAL/CALExp are having the same issues and they didn't have an "RJDC"...RJDC was simply a result of failed ALPA policy...Nothing more...nothing less....