Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
I really wish I could demand the same money I bought my house for in 05 from a potential buyer, but looking at the fore closed house nearby (AA BK), it's tough to get your asking price. Throw in the fighting spouses next door (UA/CAL) and the nutty neighbor on the other side (US), and you catch my drift. Go to a roadshow.
You like that same rear view mirror as Slowplay does too.
So I'll humour you. Doug Parker just raised the comps in the neighborhood. He is valuing US and AA the same as us. Smisek just couldn't contain his man chowder when he was briefed on our TA and he quickly held it as an example to his pilots as a doable deal.
We have taken the lowball offer. We are excepting much less than the median on the survey while funding the substandard increase by cutting profit sharing. We can do better and if the MEC keeps insisting that this is the best we can do, then time for a new MEC.