Engage: The Podcast for Delta Pilots

The weekend is cleared for takeoff ✈️, and this latest edition of Engage Weekly has some positive news from the negotiating table.

Get caught up on the latest news and events from the Delta MEC.

News rundown below 👇

• Negotiating Committee Update — Three Sections Now Complete!

• Delta MEC Holds Special Meeting Ahead of ALPA Board of Directors

• Chairman's Letter — October 21

• Welcome New Hires — October 13 Class

• Introducing the New ALPA App!

• ALPA Board of Directors Charity Auction and Raffle

• ALPA Aloha Gathering — Chicago, October 24

• Delta Pilots Charitable Fund Holiday Tie Campaign

• Aviation Security Committee: CDG Security Advisory

• Committee Spotlight: BOD Steering Committee

• CASC: October Threat Tool Kit — LATT Calculation

• Membership: A Well-Deserved Fini-Flight for Captain Bob Oltman

• Support Porter Pilots — November 18 Informational Picket

• Plus, important pilot information and LEC updates are available in this week's newsletter!

Have a good weekend!

The weekend is taxiing into view ✈️, and this latest edition of Engage Weekly has plenty on the frequency. Get caught up on the latest news and events from the Delta MEC.

Plus, important pilot information and LEC updates are available in this week’s newsletter! Have a good weekend!

Before taking off into this weekend, run down this checklist of the latest news from the Delta MEC:

Check out this week's newsletter for the latest updates from our committees and local councils, plus upcoming events!

Trip coverage shenanigans continue. Pilots are hearing the finger-pointing from management over trip coverage, ARCOS, auto-accept, and operational reliability, and many are asking a pretty simple question: How is this our problem?  

Engage host First Officer Ryan Argenta sits down with Delta MEC Executive Administrator Captain Rich Wheeler, Scheduling Committee Chairman Captain Ian Turner, and Vice Chairman Captain Josh Cantrell to take that question head-on. They trace how years of staffing decisions, fragile rotations, exploding open time, unrestricted ARCOS batch calls, and growing reliance on PWA Section 23 M. 7 brought trip coverage to where it is today.   

The group goes back to the beginning: how trips were covered before ARCOS, why nuisance calls became a problem, how pilots adapted using contractual tools like auto-accept and auto-acknowledge, and how M7 evolved from a rarely used emergency provision into what the committee describes as a routine scheduling tool. They also dig into the latest ARCOS developments, ongoing technology and implementation problems, and what pilots should and shouldn’t change about how they use the ARCOS system. There are two sides to every story. This episode gives pilots the history, context, and facts behind the trip coverage debate and asks who really owns the problem. 

The weekend is taxiing into view ✈️, and this latest edition of Engage Weekly has plenty on the frequency.

Get caught up on the latest news and events from the Delta MEC.

News rundown below 👇

• Negotiating Committee Update

• ARCOS+ Mobile App Update

• Welcome New Hires — September 22 Class

• Mental Health in Aviation Act Clears Senate; Support Requested for the Cabin Air Safety Act

• ALPA Election Season

• ALPA Board of Directors Charity Auction

• Contract 2026 Swag

• Aviation Security: CMAP Access Issues | What Pilots Should Do

• Hotel: Reminders, Recent Hotel Changes, and Upcoming Relocations

• CASC: Delta ALPA Attends NATCA Communicating for Safety Conference

• DPAC: The 2,000-Pound Telephone

• Plus, important pilot information and LEC updates are available in this week’s newsletter!

Have a good weekend!

The weekend is cleared for push ✈️, and this latest edition of Engage Weekly is loaded with updates from across the Delta MEC.

Get caught up on the latest news and events from the Delta MEC.

News rundown below 👇

• Negotiating Committee Update

• ALPA Election Season

• Delta MEC Communications Team Attends ALPA’s Communications Summit

• ALPA’s 70th Air Safety Forum: Moving Forward Together

• ALPA Board of Directors Charity Auction

• Contract 2026 Swag

• Council 44 Rep Displays Unity with Controllers at ATL Tower

• Committee Spotlight: Contract Administration

• CA: Grievance Tracker Update

• Scheduling: Scheduling Reference Handbook Update

• Training: QCQ Run Times

• Aviation Security: CMAP Launches in ATL

• CASC: September 2026 TTK — Parallel Runway Incursions

• DPAC: Just One More

• Plus, important pilot information and LEC updates are available in this week’s newsletter!

Have a good weekend!

The weekend is lining up on final ✈️, and this latest edition of Engage Weekly is ready for arrival.

Get caught up on the latest news and events from the Delta MEC.

News rundown below 👇

• Welcome New Hires — September 8 Class

• UNH Polling: September 14–23

• Committee Spotlight: Scheduling

• Contract 2026 Swag Store

• Membership: September Retirements

• Aviation Security: Air Safety Forum

• CASC: Dangerous Goods Committee Update

• DPAC: Calling DPAC

• Plus, important pilot information and LEC updates are available in this week’s newsletter!

Have a good weekend!

The weekend is coming into view ✈️, and this latest edition of Engage Weekly carries an important message of remembrance, unity, and staying engaged.

Get caught up on the latest news and events from the Delta MEC.

News rundown below 👇

• 25th Anniversary of 9/11

• Section 6 Negotiations Resume with Updated Opener

• Engage Podcast: Hold the Line | Unity Is Our Leverage

• UNH Polling Begins on September 14

• CASC: The Power of ASAP

• CASC: MYNN/NAS Runway Construction

• Plus, important pilot information and LEC updates are available in this week’s newsletter!

Have a good weekend, and never forget.

This Labor Day, Engage brings together union leadership for a wide-ranging conversation about where Delta pilots have been, where Section 6 negotiations are headed, and why the hard-fought protections in our PWA are not bargaining chips for management’s operational challenges. MEC Chairman Captain Eric Criswell and Negotiating Committee Chairman Captain Bill Finley discuss the return to a traditional Section 6 timeline, an expanded negotiating opener, management’s attempts to tie operational reliability to pilot contractual protections, and a simple message to management from the pilot group: concessions are not an option.

Then, Strategic Planning Committee Chairman Evan Baach and Strike Preparedness Committee Chairman Eric Cowen take us behind the scenes of the union’s long-term strategy - from pilot unity and building leverage to the history of organized labor, the Pullman Strike, the Railway Labor Act and the generations of workers and pilots whose sacrifices built the profession we have today.  The lesson of that history is as relevant now as ever: what we inherit, we have a responsibility to protect - and what Delta pilots negotiate today reaches far beyond Delta.

Raise the bar. Hold the line. Stay engaged.

The Labor Day weekend is taxiing into position 🇺🇸, and this latest edition of Engage Weekly has plenty on the frequency.

Get caught up on the latest news and events from the Delta MEC.

News rundown below 👇

• BOS MEC Meeting Summary

• Happy Labor Day | Delta MEC Office Hours

• BOS Council 9 Elections and Next Steps

• Welcome New Hires — August 25 Class

• Transcript: Engage Podcast | Pivot to Traditional Section 6 Negotiations

• Delta MEC Uniform Advisor Update

• Aviation Security: CMAP Issues

• Hotel: Changes and Relocations

• Training: Voluntary Withdrawal from Training and 737 MAX Module

• Contract Administration: MEC Grievance Tracker

• Jumpseat: Frontier Jumpseat Update

• PAN: What Is Talk Therapy?

• Training PUB Event — Wednesday, September 9

• Plus, important pilot information and LEC updates are available in this week’s newsletter!

Have a safe Labor Day weekend!