Originally Posted by
shoelu
I'd take 4/8/3/3 as long as it involved retro pay which has multiple past precedents. Of course we are not trying to dig our way out from a 42% pay cut, if we were I'm not sure that would have gotten my yes vote.
There very well may be a lawsuit at some point, but the 5 party agreement is very clear. There are no common use gates at Love, they are now and will continue to be spoken for. The city of Dallas can force other airlines to be accommodated by the current gate owners but only if those gates are not fully utilized which is identified as 5 turns or 10 flights a day. If those minimums are met no one can force the gate owners to share their gates.
Delta had every right to raise objections when they were not allowed gate space in the current situation. Although both United and VA have announced service that will fulfill the stipulations of full utilization, they are not currently offering that service which leaves room for Delta to use the gates they formally had access to. If all parties begin flying the schedules they have put forth in January, all gates will be "fully utilized" and Delta will no longer be accommodated.
Thanks for the contract info, that is what I figured. You got to where you are by taking small regular bites of an apple, not by gorging yourself when there are two. (For which I congratulate your group on as it has been far more successful than swinging for the fence everything you come up for contracts.)
As to the second part of the post: So how then is DAL any different than LGA? You had no slot rights there, and convinced Schumer that it was in the best interest of the consumer for you to get them hence our mired down deal with USAir. IMHO, that set the precedence, and SWA should be forced to divest some of those gates in the interest of competition. Probably won't happen because for some strange reason you are still the industry darlings, but it is a clear double standard. I'll betcha we will still retain those 5 flights/day after the dust settles, but any more will take a lot of work.