Originally Posted by
flyhawk
Bingo!
This is what I don't understand how so many can not see this and act so blindly! There are no excuses other than greedy pilots who just want a higher paycheck for a few months with no regard for what they are trading away in the long run. Can you say.....short-sighted?
Short-sighted? How about just blind?
Doug insulted and alienated the employees when he stated that they had no impact on profits. It took some communications spin effort to minimize that foot-in-mouth moment.
Then on the earnings conference call just 2 days ago, he states "We are not asking our customers to be happy with anything". The spin-meisters are busy trying to 'contextualize' that freudian slip of Doug's.
The Board of Directors must be scratching their collective heads at what the boy-wonder is up to with their airline.
Apparently there are growing investment community concerns that this merger is rapidly heading the way of United-Continental, rather than Delta-Northwest.
Meanwhile, tomorrow we will find out just how many 'Yes' voters are completely blind to the unprecedented leverage that the pilots now have to determine a better future for themselves, and a better future for the airline they provide their service to.
It seems Doug's team isn't interested in a better future for the airline, it's employees or it's customers, so much as they are interested in driving up the value of their stock options.