Airline Employees and Mergers

[superG]

It's a shame that the grandiose plans of an ambitious ceo have driven a spike between two large employee groups, thus making bitter enemies. It's happened before and will happen again as we all know the bottom line comes 1st and the employees last...
As far as "arrogant..." DL employees, we on the other hand can point our fingers at those employees of bigger carriers than ours, such as UA & AA, especially in outlying stations where our numbers are few...I've had good/bad experiences with all of them, and I'm sure they can all say the same about DL.
If anyone get screwed, it will probably be the HP employees as they are the youngest, but then mangement can alter the rules to make things work as they wish, sometimes so, that unions are powerless to do anything...Are DL Agents/FA's better off being union or non union? Who are You to criticize that question at this point in time.

 

[aislehopper]

5. Maybe I'm not a forgiving person, but TWICE the DAL f/a's had a chance to go with AFA and gave us the finger. The thoughts of playing nice with these people by giving them DOH makes my stomach turn.

I respectfully submit that you need to check your facts. The afa only called one election in which it lost by a substantial amount. Out of the then 19,033 flight attendants, only 5,520 (29%) voted for the afa. As far as DL flight attendants giving you the finger, it was more of a case of the afa not being able to convince us that having it on board would make a difference.

As far as DL employees being rude, I believe that most people find what they look for. Maybe at some level you want to find rudeness. It will justify your position.

On my crews, we do not sit around making personal attacks on other groups. We treat them with courtesy. Many of us have friends at OAL's, spend layovers with OAL f/A's, and we all share a common interest in aviation. Our company puts OAL employees up front when nonrevving or jumpseating if there is space at no extra charge. We are glad to have you.

As far as DL employees not wanting to be on board with LCC, it is not because of a dislike or disdain of LCC employees. Most of us have seen the changes in our route structure and costs. To us, LCC's footprint is the problem, not its people.

Regards,
ah

 

[LCC_#1]

I respectfully submit that you need to check your facts. The afa only called one election in which it lost by a substantial amount. Out of the then 19,033 flight attendants, only 5,520 (29%) voted for the afa. As far as DL flight attendants giving you the finger, it was more of a case of the afa not being able to convince us that having it on board would make a difference.

As far as DL employees being rude, I believe that most people find what they look for. Maybe at some level you want to find rudeness. It will justify your position.

On my crews, we do not sit around making personal attacks on other groups. We treat them with courtesy. Many of us have friends at OAL's, spend layovers with OAL f/A's, and we all share a common interest in aviation. Our company puts OAL employees up front when nonrevving or jumpseating if there is space at no extra charge. We are glad to have you.

As far as DL employees not wanting to be on board with LCC, it is not because of a dislike or disdain of LCC employees. Most of us have seen the changes in our route structure and costs. To us, LCC's footprint is the problem, not its people.

Regards,
ah

Point taken. 😉