For starters, per diem is NOT income. End of story.
Secondly, we have been hearing about how things at endeavor will improve and how delta has good things in the works for us for almost a year now. The only thing we received so far came just a few days ago and was contractually supposed to have been here 3 and a half years ago for reserve transparency. So, it takes over 3 years for things to come which means we have almost 3 years before these glorious ideas that delta has come to fruition.