Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
You love that metric. You like to measure from Delta's position as a stand alone airline to prove your point. Your measurement is as relevant as a housewife telling her children to "eat all of your dinner because children are starving in Africa."
We are Northwest airlines in all but name. The people running the show are doing the job exactly as they did at Northwest and we are continuing along Northwest's capacity trend.
Move your metric (and your projections) to the end of 2009 and measure again.
If you are comfortable stagnating where you sit, or got a left seat before the music stopped, good for you.
( FWIW ... my request for leave was refused three times ... need longer than 10 months to get a contract gig overseas ... this is just my usual post merger fall displacement pattern ... displacement bid ... leave request ... displacements ameliorated by holding more pilots at higher levels than projected ... stay for another year ... get older & stagnate )
Bar, Since the day you started on the forum you have not had a good thing to say about Delta airlines. You have attacked every aspect of the airline and the job. The only mystery is why you have not moved on to all those greener pastures you constantly post about and why you came here in the first place. The world economy is in collapse. The US is in almost as bad shape. Jet fuel is near historic highs.
We have no one on furlough. No furloughs are being discussed. We might even hire this winter. We are going to be expanding the mainline fleet. I fly on jumpseats all the time with regionals. Every single time they want to know how to get hired at Delta. Given the world situation and where most airlines are at these days there is a reason they want to go to Delta.