Originally Posted by
rube
"Surely."
This is the fourth-longest period of economic expansion since the Second World War. What happened to all the other expansions?
The tinhorn populists are asking you to make two assumptions:
1. We will get released to strike.
2. The macro economy won't have any effect on our micro negotiations; the current expansion will either continue into perpetuity, or Delta is now immune to recessions.
For the first assumption, we're parked. For the second, I offer the record of history.
^^^says every pilot with a contract not worth owning. Yes, there are risks in life involved with anything. If we collectivelly desire to have a degree of contract restoration, now is the time. Our time may be the best in the history of airline financial times, or it may not. Nobody can answer that question today. But if not today, pray tell, When?