Originally Posted by
Sink r8
Those things bring you confidence that you can survive. I remember being humbled by my furlough, and proud of my family's resilience, but it wasn't without a cost. So jaded by furlough? Hardly.
Most of this group has never been permitted to be jaded by a strike, or a lockout. However, we've been anything but jaded by 9/11, LOA46, oil at $140, CH11, 1113, LOA51, the loss of the pension, the gigantic cluster-foque just to get a JCBA agreement the second time around (after losing value through infighting and indecision), and the merger, to the point where everyone knows the economic environment is a bit, well, fickle, and cyclical.
This thread is about pre-dismissing the very second-quarter results no-voters were saying were being deliberately withheld. It's not really a great argument.
I'm not saying the end of the world is near, but don't accuse people of selling fear, while looking at the world through rose-colored crystal balls, and selling "everything will be fine". My bank doesn't accept "everything will be fine" as a form of payment.
Fine, jaded may have been a poor choice of words. How about battle hardened?
Either way heres the facts:
http://ir.delta.com/files/doc_downlo...-June-2015.pdf
Here's the commentary:
http://ir.delta.com/files/doc_downlo...uly-2-2015.pdf
If you prefer not to post the pace of accumulation vs last year and total set aside for profit sharing, I will. I will give you time to review. This is a very healthy company and does not require concessions. It can afford to do better by its pilots.
The point of the thread is to focus on facts and TA language not spin. If this would have been unforeseen the fear-mongering would have been on tilt. Pre-announcements are usually done to soften the blow so I assumed bad news, not bankruptcy bad but disappointing. I had no insider knowledge of what the numbers would be just an educated guess. The company prefers to get the headline by surprising with good news. It turns out the pre-announcement wasn't that bad the softness was accounted for, but it was a tactic. The preparation of the group must stem from my job skills.