Originally Posted by slowplay

Just who were these flying the line managers that would know Delta's fleet plan? Unless it was Pieper (not a pilot) or higher, they don't exist on the A320 fleet. BTW, did they ever tell you what plan B was....or where the airplanes that constituted plan B went just weeks after our deal?

Why the need for the historical revisionism spouted by Gloopy, Scambo, and now you?

There was never going to be billions poured into aircraft engine overhauls. ALPA never said there was. There was a bunch that C2012 allowed them to not spend that got shifted to us instead. There was a path to more mainline flying that allowed management to get out of 50 seaters quicker. Tell me again how many DAL has parked since 2012 versus how many UAL/AAL have parked? If this forum intellect was correct the numbers would be similar for all carriers...

Oh, you forgot, there were those little things like contracts and ownership costs associated with the CRJ-200's. And that management still wants about 125 of them in the system, and that they had a path to get to around 200-225 without our help. On that path they would have taken about 30 mainline planes vice 88. Instead we got all 88, over 20% in compensation increases and the amount of job creation is very close to the predicted number.

So believe what you will (this forum isn't supposed to discuss religion), but please support it with a little bit of logic and fact.