Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

He was making predictions based on C2012...not the economies of the future. He was wrong about economic predictions but right about C2012's impact on jobs. If Delta decided to stagnate, there would have been job losses resulting from C2012 and boog would have predicted correctly. If Delta had decided to shrink the airline, then it would have been unfair to blame the shrinkage job losses on C2012...only the job losses resulting from our concessions in C2012.

I understand your need to twist people's predictions, but if Delta had shrunk the airline, you'd be pounding the table right now saying you can't blame that on C2012. And you'd be right.

Carl