yes, in fact, I have repeatedly noted that DL has retained the scope it inherited from NW and the IAM.
and the fact that Kevin has repeatedly noted that in his opinion it costs less to hire an RR working alongside some FT personnel, it should be obvious why DL has adopted the model it has.
DL has its own people, including FT people who are long term participants in stations - but they also use RRs to help increase staffing to what is necessary to staff small and medium sized stations.
Other airline unions have repeatedly said they don't want minimally benefitted or RR positions - and guess what they get but to have stations outsourced.
I wonder if WT agreed with the pre-merger DL executives decision to cut down to 15 ramp stations.
how or why would I have?
And that is great, that things worked out for you!
On the other hand, I personally know several people, who had some serious time, 10-15 years and took the buyout during the riff, only to come back, years later and having to start at the bottom again. They were not so fortunate, in the outside world.
of course there are people who did not fare well.
Walking away from a job in any environment is giving to leave some people worse off.
many will succeed but there will be those that get hurt in the process.
The southside of Atlanta is full of former Eastern employees. Many DL employees know one or more former EA employees - not all fared well. Some did.
People are simply not willing to put good paying, benefitted jobs on the line in order to pursue something that might or might not work out. The economics improvement for what unions can offer compared to what non-union companies, esp. airlines offer is just not there.
