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Most of the hiring and growth prognostications with LGA were generated by the MEC, Lee Moak in particular.
This is a different animal - the prosperity of our immediate futures is tied to Asia, and HND is in the cross hairs at the moment. Getting the SEA-HND slot won't nessicarily net us jobs, but losing it might cost us jobs, or slow down growth at the least. If the Japanese get away with isolating US flag carriers from HND while they use it as a primary O&D international port, the remaining beach and transfer traffic out of NRT will result in a huge pullback from Japan. Eventual 787 overflights will still not recapture the O&D we get with Fifth Freedom rights.
If we don't get access to HND and the international O&D I would anticipate furloughs, stagnation, and hiring pushed back for years until retirements eat up the difference.
Where did he say that jobs and growth would be created? This is from the chairmans letter he put out about it. It doesn't say there will be jobs, it says there would be a possibility for jobs based on mother d being able to leverage the swap. The swap was delayed 2 years or more delaying Deltas ability to get in and leverage it and allow the competition 2 years to work against it.
Your elected representatives have been engaged on the details of the proposed transaction from its earliest stages, and they are unanimous in the belief that the DOT should approve the transaction as originally proposed. In the weeks ahead, we will focus our efforts to that end. If the DOT order is implemented in its current form, the transaction will likely not go forward simply because the economic benefit will no longer exist. That will result in the loss of business opportunities for our company, the loss of increased choices for small and medium-sized communities and the loss of job growth opportunities for Delta pilots and our fellow employees.
"the loss of job growth opportunities for Delta pilots" - thats a promise of jobs?
From a labor perspective, much of the current and future success of our company is directly attributable to our sacrifices during bankruptcy. Without those sacrifices, our company might not have survived. Now, with the prospect of a slowly recovering economy and industry, we have the right to expect the federal government not to interfere with the legitimate business plans of our company. And as members of the largest pilot union in the world, affiliated with the 13 million-member AFL-CIO, we have the right to expect more from an administration that prides itself on being a friend of labor. We are not asking for special treatment; we are simply asking that our company be allowed to succeed in what is supposed to be a deregulated free market environment.