Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Seriously?
I thought the conventional wisdom among DALPA aficionados was that my way of thinking would get us "parked" (love that term... no pilot likes to get "parked"
). You know... time value of money and all that.
Because of what happened to American, that is always the DALPA answer.
The issue that nobody at DALPA wants to talk about is, So WHAT?
If I were Lee Moak, or Mike D, I would say to the NMB, "You park us, we park the airplanes, period." No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Is that an illegal job action? Yup. Is Lee or MD going to go to jail, to get your pay and pension restored? Nope. That's why they won't even say the word.
But absent that threat, we have no real leverage, other than begging for 3% raises, after taking 42% pay cuts.
What was it Richard said, "Labor risk has been taken off the table..."
Without Labor Risk, we have no leverage.
So bend over and take C2015 in the pooper, again. You will NEVER see 'restoration' absent the threat of a job action. Richard is not going to throw that much money at us just because he likes us. If however, his billions of Delta Shares were to drop in value, due to pilot unrest....well...now we may be getting somewhere! But we don't have the leadership to pull it off. And to be honest, we don't have the membership to pull it off either. What did you think that rocking chair was for?