Originally Posted by O2pilot

We could get that exact thing now. Just tell your MEC reps that you want the DL profit sharing, so to get that you are willing to give up 49% of our existing international flying to JV partners, and just take a revenue share. Sure we will lose about 1,500 WB jobs, but we will get a few more $ in profit sharing.

In the next downturn, when there’s no profits, neither Delta nor United will be getting profit sharing checks, but we will still have a WB fleet that 2X the size of Delta’s. And I’d rather take the bird in the hand vs the 2 in the bush.