Originally Posted by
scambo1
I did misunderstand your question, to a degree, I think...
When I read what your response was to George, I got the impression that you were not believing that a person could buy a Delta ticket (and that it was not in Delta's best interest to sell them that ticket) to go from any number of domestic cities and fly to any number of international cities - without ever getting on a Delta jet.
You seemed to want to back this up with what you heard at a road show.
Well I'm glad we cleared that up. You did misunderstand me. I was curious if there's something weird in Delta's computer. I was wondering "Why would they intentionally sell a sequence of flights that pays them less than another comparable sequence that would pay them more?"
I thought of two possibilities:
1. programming error
2. specific criteria input (departure/arrival/en route cities/etc) drove the routing away from the higher revenue solution
Originally Posted by
scambo1
I wish we Delta pilots were actually in that situation...
Why are we the pilots of last resort?
Why would we give up more leverage with this TA?
Why would we facilitate a merger so inexpensively just to stagnate longer?
I disagree.
There is no evidence we are the "pilots of last resort" reference.
There is no evidence we are "giving up leverage". We are using the leverage. It is true that once leverage is used, you no longer have it. It's like ammo. You can shoot it or stockpile it. Not both.
I also don't see that we've facilitated a merger. Most people see further consolidation as inevitable. I don't see that we can change that. I'm also not convinced we should necessarily try to play god. Let someone else run the airline. My union should get me paid.
Originally Posted by
scambo1
You aren't a frequent poster, so my assumption is you are a DALPA salesman. If you are here to learn and debate, welcome. If you are here to hardsell a weak TA with anonymous webboard impunity, good luck.
I don't know you. I don't log in here often. I think people who spend a lot of time on boards like this are kind of sad. In this conversation with me you have in my opinion distorted the situation ("pilots of last resort") and attempted to discredit someone who you think disagrees with you (but you don't know if we disagree because you misunderstood my post).
What am I to think of you?
For all I know, you could be a management mole.
But I have no more basis for that theory than you have for yours.
So I make no assumptions.
You say your choice is to make assumptions with no basis.
If that's the case, good luck to you, sir.