Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Look alfa, I understand your need to walk back your earlier comments about showing active pilots as a metric to "prove" that we're not liquidating. But nothing of this post changes the fact that we are operating ~70 aircraft less, we're selling off real estate and business centers, and we're "laying off" non-frontline employees. When you do these things and don't replace them with anything, that's slowly liquidating. How long will it continue? Who knows. But that's our reality.
Carl
I think it more along the lines of eliminating duplication and streamlining the corporation to provide the increased revenue and decreased costs sought when merging two enterprises to deliver profits and increase shareholder value, but I could be wrong.
In my view, combining $15-$20 billion dollar enterprises into a $30-$35 billion dollar enterprise take years, not just a few months and this is all STILL part of the DL-NW merger. Luckily we are (as shareholders) seeing the benefits start to come in (stock has tripled since the merger).
Now it is time to start the payback of the stakeholders who have given the most and are still giving to this day..... The pilots of Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines.