Originally Posted by
JungleBus
Oh and in reply to the original question, Denny, if three years from now I'm sitting at Delta and they've been hiring like gangbusters ever since and the 717s truly turned out to be jumbo-RJ replacement aircraft and not merely DC9/MD88 replacement aircraft, the new jumbo-RJs are flying to a lot of former 50-seat markets, and the company has maintained full compliance with the ratios - I will gladly admit I was wrong and will give DALPA a lot more credit in the future.
I am very curious about the inverse of your question, though. What would it take for guys like tsquare, shiz, and lumburg to admit they were wrong?
First paragraph. Okay, I'll hold you to it!!
(What's "hiring like gangbusters? 500/year?)
Second paragraph. Well, if you couldn't guess, after much angst and debate with myself, I ended up voting for the TA for various reasons. (I don't think I'm a ballless sheeple like others might think...
) I've already said I expect the seniority list to be post merger size or better. I will add to that any relaxation of the ratio via a LOA or failure to grieve for anything other than a MAJOR force majeur event to save the company (and even in that, there should be a timeline to get back on track established) then I'll eat crow.
I look forward to you and Boomer being here for the next TA discussion!!
Denny