Originally Posted by
Free Bird
You're right, I've never had to swallow that sandwich, at least for 5 years. Hundreds of other Delta pilots and I had the cake walk of a 5 year furlough. The last 5 years I've been so insanely senior that I've had the privilege of only working about 85% of weekends and holidays, all on the mighty maddog.
I guess I've never really reflected on smooth my career has been to this point. More to the point, the last 5 years have been hard on most of this seniority list. We all knew what we were getting into by coming to Delta. Roughly 1,000 folks were furloughed following 9-11, I don't blame anyone, it's what comes along with this job. you guys volunteered to work here, sorry it hasn't worked out for you like you planned.
The point those of us who are saying the buckets need to be adjusted to something less than the current values
isn't that we aren't getting what we expected in this career. While not to your level, we have experienced that as well. We've gotten a merger, we've had the great recession, we've got high oil prices, etc., etc., and we're the bottom of the bottom. No, what makes this different is that it's our own representation twisting the knife. This is like bread and circuses. How about working to get back to
everything that was given up, and not just seniority reserve? I say put your energy and determination to getting restoration back. But you won't even hear that said. But throw some junior reserves under the bus? Can do easy.