Originally Posted by
cornerpocket
I'm not challenging what you're saying, just trying to understand the end-game here: In what ways does it benefit mainline to keep an atrophied wholly-owned regional partner?
Is there some form of leverage in it over mainline pilots and/or regional partners?
Are their financial benefits (i.e. taxes, write-offs, debt, etc) to it?
Is it Ed Bastian's personal fetish to snuff out career aspirations of Endeavor employees???
It doesn't benefit them to keep us in an atrophied state. This is a transitional state. We will either turn around and build back, or go away completely.
As to leverage, having us in this condition doesn't directly give them any leverage, but giving us *anything* more while they are actively negotiating with DALPA loses them a lot of leverage in that negotiation. Everything I've heard is once the mainline contract is locked in, Delta is likely to be a lot more willing to try to solve the problems here in one way or another, but expect absolutely nothing to happen until then...