Originally Posted by
Bigflya
The DC-9 is a "furlough jet." Your mgmt has told as much by systematically parking them. They are 35+ years old, horribly inefficient, and the flying was quickly being replaced by commuter jets from Mesaba and Compass. Your 787's are coming in who knows when and NWA will not pay to keep hundreds of pilots on the payroll while they waited. You guys rightously made deals to keep as many guys on the property as you could but eventually the numbers would have caught up with you. NWA's old fleet and past commuter jet concessions should not be carried on the backs of the DAL pilot group. When gas skyrocketed, the majority of our cuts came at the commuter level thus saving mainline jobs.
You really don't have an argument here. If you think you do, you might wanna take a look at the DAL RJ parade in JFK and ATL. Oh, and SLC too. And where's DALs 100 seat mainline airplane? Oh yeah, in the desert. Looks like NWA held on to scope longer. And how many pilots has NWA furloughed since fuel skyrocketed? ZERO! And in regards to the #s catching up to us, we haven't even applied the new staffing formula champ. Therefore, your theory that are furlough mitigations failed, and the merger saved us, is incorrect. Nice argument though, really.
