Originally Posted by Spudhauler

I appreciate your optimism, but our history doesn’t reflect the idea of large scale growth of international flying. Delta has shown with its billions invested into foreign carriers that it would rather have the lower paid crews of JV partners do the heavy lifting while we share in the revenue. I doubt very much that they would optimistically tout this agreement if they didn’t think it would benefit the company, which by definition almost assuredly means we pilots, once again, do not.