Orange lanyards are great. Sounds like we might even see some informational picketing. But its still pre-game warmup. The whistle hasn't really blown yet.

I think there is a lot of pent up "militancy" out there. You can feel it on the line and in the lounges. Every time management puts out a memo telling us how great we are and how we need to keep up the operational excellence, guys are only getting more disgusted and angry. And its not just senior management. The whole Flight Ops structure from Dickson to the chief pilots and right down to the line check airmen is going to start losing credibility and respect.

Ed giving interviews where he attributes Delta's recovery and recent success to the great employees and the fabulous "culture" is just the latest insult.
How on Earth can he say that stuff while he still has the pilot group working under our bankruptcy concessions? Ed and everybody else may have recovered and prospered but we are still waiting.

The loss of our pensions was a devastating blow to a large segment of the pilot group. It really hurts to see the corporation now paying off all its debts and buying back all that stock and paying the huge bonuses to management and buying other airlines all over the world, etc. etc.. There needs to be some acknowledgement of the enormous sacrifice made by the pilots with that pension termination and at least an attempt to give us a chance to make up some of that loss.

Right now the MEC is pretty much keeping a lid on the boiling pot. They're saying there is no reason we shouldn't have a deal "this summer". That has left the impression that things are moving along and management is still negotiating in good faith. I hope that is true, but if its not...

Sometime "this summer" Malone is going to blow the whistle.