Great point.
Yeah, if you thought the B717's were coming anyway, you got hoodwinked. Even though management told you that they were contingent on a deal, and that they had a plan B. Even though Allegiant signed a contract for about 1/3 the number of small narrowbody aircraft just weeks after ours passed. Hoodwinked! Management had a real world deadline to get started.
If you thought RJ50's were just going away on their own and DCI would get way smaller, even though ownership costs and lease obligations stretched into next decade, then you were hoodwinked. You were told that management had a plan B, and that they'd make the smartest financial decisions for the company, not for Delta pilots. And they had a real world deadline to get started.
But here in the real world, getting B717's, ensuring more Delta pax are flown by Delta pilots, and increasing pilot pay 12.84% on the amendable date and a bunch of other improvements were the reason that this was the right deal at the right time.
Of course if some of the keyboard commandos were in charge we could use all those other successful methodologies from the other airlines. I mean SWA...they got 0% this year and are still $40 per hour less than our C2K rate and have never beeen through bankruptcy. UPS and FDX are beneath those rates too. It's soooo simple that UAL/CAL have a deal that just smokes ours... Of course we could use the examples of where some of our favorite DL warriors come from...PCL? XJet?
So thanks for bringing up the reality, Sinca. Hoodwinked!
