My take on DAL (Not to hijack this thread) is this. There is no way with DC-9's and MD-88 in the fleet that we will not be parking a ton of jets. The only way that we will not is this. Since everyone else has, we can keep our levels close to where they are. All we need is about 50-60 more per ticket in this environment. With 15% of the domestic capacity going away this fall, we will be able to charge a lot more for our tickets. In reality this is a shot in the dark. I really think that we need to follow suit. Our only saving grace is that we have moved so many airframes overseas that we have already trimmed a lot of our Fat.
What I am doing is this. Even though the market is horrible, I am getting the house ready to sell. I will put it on the market in the next 30 days. First by myself and then with a Realtor if things get ugly. I have a lot of equity so I can dump it if need be. They are saying about 12 months for house in my price range. (Not cheap, but not crazy expensive) I figure why not get some of those months out of the way while I still have income.
I have my resume updated and have been talking to a few companies on the corporate side of things. (BTW starting wages are more that I will make here as a 88CA) If the house sells, we are going to move to where I can find a job. There will be none here in Atlanta. When the offer for voluntary LOA's comes out, I will pull the trigger and go take one of these jobs and see where this all goes. Resigning seniority now is a dumb idea, as I think in the next ten years our QOL and wages will surpass those of the corporate world again making this the place to be.
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