Originally Posted by
intrepidcv11
I respect you bumped, but your in fantasy land here. JP Morgan and other powerful parties would have ensured that Congress did not delay this merger over the squabbles of airline pilots. I'll take Jamie Dimon and his cronies over ALPA any day.
Thus the only contract offer in 2010 was DAL's BK contract. Anything else would have required a similar multi year period of company stalling and NMB semi action. So did you think DAL's BK contract in 2010 was adequate enough to send to the membership? If so I find that utterly pathetic.
You could very well be correct. Merely speculation on my part based on what my local reps were pedaling at the time, the pace of negotiatons at the time, and what DAL was able to accomplish with their merger. Of course, they also got a contract EARLY this latest go around, so clearly they have a different management team than we.
Interestingly, it seemed to work out ok for us thanks to our brothers and sisters at DAL raising the bar for us to hang our hat on. It would be interesting to see how much equity we lost and then compare how much we gained by going behind DAL on this contract cycle. No way to calculate that obviously, just curiosity