Originally Posted by
georgetg
I would suggest no penalty.
I'm not interested in penalties.
I'm interested in integrity when it comes to the company. That means Delta "making it right" and keeping the deal that was agreed to over four years ago.
Go ahead, let the company take one more year and and bring our share of flying to the upper end of the compliance window to 51.5% on a three year look-back by March 30, 2015 and we all win.
Cheers
George
If we're out of balance already, and we're pulling down more over the Atlantic (even if its just a reduction in growth, its still a capacity transfer away from there) and AF/KLM is adding a 380 per day to MIA (a lot of block hours) I think the writing is on the wall. They have no intention to "keep their deals" other than assuming we will just excuse the deal in the first place. Perhaps for money. Maybe that'll be their first move after another bad faith zero percent raise opener. OK, OK, a COLA raise plus a couple percent, but only if…
I agree with you I want the block hour/ESK's and not just for a moment but for years. There needs to be a stick for noncompliance though.
As an aside, if we morph into a AF/KLM/VA hub feeder and continue the pulldown that started from the Great ER Purge of a couple years ago, even if we split the block hour/ESK's evenly, or even if we get 51.5%, but we're only splitting the hub to hub and they get a ton of block hour growth
from their hubs
to destinations we currently serve, are
those block hours/ESK's counted in the formula? Or is that a free way for them to transfer a ton of capacity to our "partners" without using our metal or pilots? Yes, there would be some growth in US-EU hub hours/ESK's to do that, but there would be a lot more hours/ESK's lost than gained if all those hours/ESK's suddenly went off the books because it was considered EU-EU flying.