ACL,

We have a Department that collects and reviews applications. As long as Delta pays them they they will solicit and review applications. Kind of like the way Vegas runs off the Hoover Dam. If people disappear, the slot machines would likely run until the lake goes dry.

What 80 misses in the doom and gloom of Section 6, is that Management is dressing up in clown suits and serving cake (really). They are not at all doom and gloom. They are rather pleased with themselves. Delta's doing very well. (and I'm grateful too )

Don't know how to break it to you guys... The regional pilots recognize this for what it is ... we're getting whipsawed by all the outsourcing we have allowed. When management tells you ... "oh Jeez, you're the best but we just don't know what it would cost here..." That is whipsaw. Our competition in LGA is GoJets. That's nauseating.

While much is made of the billion dollars worth of upgrades our fleet is getting, it pales to the 7.4 Billion spent on 255 jets with 90 to 100 seat capacity.