Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
The take away from our last Quarterly Earnings call was that Delta's Executives see Delta, Air France, KLM, Virgin, Alitalia, DCI, AeroMexico and GOL as a single airline and manage marketing as such.
Now if you are painting your house and you have 8 different painters available, are you going to pick the most expensive, or the cheapest? Ostensibly Virgin is a better brand than Delta too (although buy Delta tickets when I buy tickets).
We allowed this "portfolio of carriers" thing to flourish with the RJ flying that nobody cared about. Now we are becoming a niche player in our own airline.
We need our contract to recognize the Delta MEC. We need to unify Delta flying under the Delta MEC. We need to start making the structural changes which will bind this company to our pilot group.
So, what I am gathering from your statement though is that IF our MEC decided to fight a traditional battle with the company for C2015, we'll lose dearly in the end because things are about to change? All of it centered upon that pesky first section of the contract?
So we're the British lining up shoulder to shoulder to charge a hill in WWI that is manned by German machine guns? Or we're like Detroit UAW workers decades ago fighting for more compensation as GM unloads robots that can build cars better, faster and without any Monday hangover issues?
"Welcome on board Skyteam Airlines, this leg from Tampa to Atlanta was brought to you by Delta Air Lines, if your next leg from Atlanta is to the other side of the world then you will probably be on a brand new A380 or 777-300 obviously flown by another Skyteam partner."
