[BobDDuck]

I don't have a dog in this fight, but it seems to be that the DAL group is being rather close minded. I understand they got screwed, and I think it is actually pretty admirable that a pilot group even cares about their furloughed guys. In general it seems that the junior people get thrown under the bus again and again. However, I don't see how you can blacklist an entire airline because of something their MEC (and some line pilots) did 5 years ago. Sure, by all means, any pilot who was around then splatter with the brush (but even that seems sort of broad) but how can you honestly tell somebody who wasn't even there at the time "you should have known better then to go work at comair." In my current situation we have several (ok, many) furloughed guys from the mainline carrier that owns us. There are a FEW people here that make their life hell because they think that they are taking up seats that should belong to non furloughed pilots. These few happen to be very vocal and have managed to get the attention of the mainline MEC. That MEC has put out a notice that until this pilot group fixes it's relationship with the furloughed pilots here the mainline MEC won't even TALK to our MEC let alone work to better things for us here (flow through, unified scheduling etc). So, just because a few (and I really do mean a few) people here are out of control, the whole group gets slammed.

I don't pretend to know the whole story at CMR/DAL. I've read the stuff the CMR MEC put out and the RJDC guys are always spewing garbage to anybody who will listen, but it seems to be that the DAL group has taken a hyper sensitive stance and are willing to burn anybody even remotely related to CMR even if they had nothing to do with the issue.