Originally Posted by
EDVPLT
Flow
I hate to say this, but honestly, Delta is just using you guys to get these 35 airplanes flying for the Summer. They aren’t stupid and know they stand a good chance at losing arbitration, but there may be a small chance they win. Even if they lose, they still will get to use these 35 airplanes for the busiest travel months this summer while we are extremely short staffed at mainline because management decided to play hard ball with the pilots instead of keeping the operation staffed. In their eyes, they are winning and get what they want in either scenario. Then if they lose arbitration, the flow becomes invalid and back to the old way of just the DGI and I really don't think there is a chance of a flow happening after that.
There aren't 35 planes sitting around, they are already gone, they have to buy 35 new aircraft.(almost certainly 35 E175s for RAH) Those aircraft would not come online for at least 6 months.
Originally Posted by
mkitrn
when was the agreement signed?
The agreement has not been signed yet.