Originally Posted by
Diesel1030
This is why the company prefers to negotiate with the membership.
A year ago all here were just fine with the MOU.. Now look at folks readily willing to trade concessions to get the money early.
Look hard at these concessions and ask yourself.. If they are so minor why is mngt wanting it? All of these wants have a price tag and they want to get it the cheapest. We are nearing the end.. Let's let our reps do their jobs.
In a few weeks the company will post even more record profits as well as the compensation details of our execs for the year (Will be fun to see their profit sharing ).They can and should be compensating us better.
People are assuming profits will go ape next year. I'm not so sure. Yes oil prices are down but so is the overall market for oil, demand has dropped tremendously. Europe and Asia are weakening as is our Mecca, Texas. Latin America traffic has dropped off the cliff.
Domestically the U.S. is OK overall for now helped by the extra oomph of cheap gas but that could go either way. SWA increased traffic in DAL 13% alone in one month while ours dropped 1% in the same month. Our domestic strength is non-existent in the face of LCCs and ULCCs. We need a strong world economy to be profitable unlike SWA.