Originally Posted by
Erdude32
Any idea what the PS would have been using the Reduced numbers in the TA? I realize no changes took place until 2017, so 2016 is going to be big no matter what. So if the profit remains the same throughout 2016 & we agree to a new TA with the same PS trade they were asking for, what would the 2/17 % be vs w/out a TA?
This is before my time at delta, so correct me if I'm wrong here, but wasn't there a large chunk of PS that was return in C2012 in exchange for other things? We should also be focusing on what the PS payouts WOULD HAVE been had that not occurred. I think this will only cement the argument more DO NOT TOUCH MY PS...as the PS gets wittled down more and more, delta starts to expanded its business model more and more outside of the it's employees, and JV contracts grow, how will we ever capitalize on the company profits? What we have is a major bargaining chip for us, and I for one will not give up my hold of it unless the company is willing to pay bucko bucko bucks. It's clear that Delta has an insational thirst to expand the company outside of the traditional airline footprint. The only way we take advantage of that (after our wide body airplanes shrink, our routes get doled out) is through scope language, and PROFIT SHARING. IMO the two largest threats with TA2015 was what the company (and the union) tried to do with JV and PS.