Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Google National mediation board. Find their letter on reasonableness and how they define that.
We should ignore the NMB. They have made themselves irrelevant.
The Railway Labor Act is a dead end. Nobody gets a good contract by following that path.
Our leverage is right here:
<Q – Jamie Baker – JPMorgan Securities LLC>:
Excellent. I appreciate that. And for Richard, and forgive me, this is a bit of a replay from last quarter, if you consider the next pilot contract it still isn’t clear to me what management’s ask is going to be. Unlike last time you don’t need additional scope relief, I don’t think, you don’t need 717 rate and so forth, so my concern is that ALPA may have the upper hand this time around at the negotiating table which could put pressure on the longer-term ex-fuel CASM targets that you were speaking about earlier. Any thoughts on this?
<A – Richard Anderson – Delta Air Lines, Inc.>:
We have an incredible track record working with our colleagues at ALPA. And if you just look at the track record over the last 10 years, it’s been just phenomenal and we expect it to continue to be that way. So if you look at what we’ve been doing in the business, we’ve really taken the labor risk totally off the table at Delta. And our employees are fully engaged in delivering a great product. And that’s one of the key de-risking events that we’ve undertaken at Delta that’s unique to the company. And it’s one of the most valuable things we have and that relationship is very important to us. And we will continue unabated on the track that we’ve been on for a decade.