Originally Posted by
Bananie
I could say without the deal we would have hired 0 and then we both are making up numbers we know nothing about. At least I admit what I don't know. We can all create hypotheticals but the reality is Delta pilot jobs increased since 2012 when almost all the APC crowd predicted we would shrink and lose mainline jobs. You were wrong about that. But now you are for sure right with your made up numbers.
Although I think it is somewhat disingenuous to attribute any job gain specifically to C2012 like ALPA implies on the website, I also agree that it is just as disenginious to claim exactly what would have happened sans the contract, or any event for that matter. There are plenty of those statements "the 717s were coming anyway" "we would hired more" "we would have got a better deal if...."
No way to prove any of those statements to be wrong and I guess that is the beauty of living on that side of the argument, you can be a message board hero with all the right answers with no real accountability. It is a lot like fans in the stands who have all the right play calls... "If we would have just passed instead of running the ball......"