Your physics teacher was different from mine. It takes the same energy to stop the same mass regardless of if your landing or taking off if the speeds are the same. There are varibles as I mentioned. However physics are physics. Sure if you can use reverse thrust on a long runway on landing you can get by with less braking but your using energy from the reversers instead and you gain from aerodynamic drag. If you have a way to decelerate identical masses from identical speeds but use less energy for one you need to quit Delta and become a rich man!
How about a comment on Jerry's claim that Delta has added 30% in block hours since the merger and therefore we have lost 1000 jobs? How many jobs were you stating the 1.5 % shortfall in EASK were costing us? What was the reality? Where were your comments about the absolutely ridiculous statements that the MD88's could not be equipped with ADSB so the company had to have a contract now.
Again the new contract is owned by a well organized group that has used the contract no vote as a platform for another agenda. Will we in the future recall every rep who votes different then the member ratification vote? Why did we not do it on contract 2012?
The backpedaling has already started. First we were told that the company would come crawling back on its knees if we voted no. We would have a new contract in 48 hours, then two weeks and no way past the amendable date. Now we're told to buckle in for the long hual it's going to be years. That last statement is the one true fact.