Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Sometimes it our PTSD gets triggered by anything optimistic.
Leo Mullin: “we have entered a new cost paradigm future looks great, we are spending billions in Boston and new pilot contract billions yadda yadda…”
Reality: hired bankruptcy attorneys, bought a colostomy bag load of RJ’s, furloughed, violated contract, went bankrupt
Jim White: “going to be the launch customer for the 787 and grow”
Reality: “somebody call Jim at the Paris Air Show, tell him Northwest’s President is the new boss, and that he doesn’t work for Delta any more. See if RedHat will send their jet over to get the kid.”
Merged, fleet and network “rationalized” three displacements, two reinstatements, plug for years…
Ed Bastian: “we have a new revenue paradigm and going to make money forever, THANK YOU jet”
Reality: global pandemic wipes us out in a matter of weeks, we park 700 jets and government bailout keeps us alive (and a ton of debt)
My career has been five displacements and two advancements. We’ve learned to use the breaks from the shelling to dig foxholes.
January 2020 was my 10th anniversary, gave a little speech to my workgroup joking about how much profit we made soon as I started working here, and here's to another 10 years of it. April I was one of maybe three lead AMTs in the hangars and turning a wrench because we only had maybe a dozen still working. That...was a bit shocking.
But then again, my whole plan to be a pilot got derailed back in 2001 during my freshman year at UND for the aeronautics program. So I learned early on to always be improving my fighting position.
That said, I'm looking forward to this year's profit sharing; while it won't buy the Cardinal new avionics, it'll help a ton while I'm on Propel leave...granted that I survive the PARB that I'm still waiting to hear back from.