Originally Posted by SailorJerry

Not necessarily directed at you but just a thought anyway - for comparison's sake. Had the company added the 717 fleet outside of Section 6 we would have negotiated a new pay rate for it. Maybe it would have gotten M88 pay. So say the company parks the 50s, adds the 717s, we negotiate a new rate, and get nothing, but they still save their huge chunk of change. Not saying its fair if this analyst is correct, but in alternate universes this could have turned just plain bleak for us.

Remember too that not every penny of profit that Delta makes immediately is willed to you. There's 79,999 others that think they generated the revenue who want fractions of your penny.