Originally Posted by
20Fathoms
Agreed on bringing the flying back in house. Well said. We hope you guys are here one day and eventually become the retirees we speak of. As for the wholly owned part, it doesn’t really hold much sway IMHO. For all intents and purposes we own most of Virgin Atlantic. Should they get benefits above our retirees? What about the folks at the Trainer refinery? Pretty sure we own that. Delta casts its net wide and we own a lot of things. I guess it’s above both of our paygrades though. Delta can unilaterally place emotional support peacocks at S2 unless we put it in the contract. Just my 2 cents.
Just curious, how many wholly owned domestic companies carries DAL customers and employees? You also had 2 opportunities to bring back or keep all your flying in house. First you gave up your scope and then you gave up the flying on the regional aircraft DAL owned after the NWA merger that you had to adjust your pilots contract for.