I'm a new dog in this fight, a new hire. I haven't yet lived through a furlough, nor have I seen half of my pay and all of my retirement stolen.

What concerns me is if we go forward with restoring the record setting pay, does that leave us exposed to the major LCCs (SWA, jetBlue, AirTran)? And could they essentially put us back into bankruptcy within a year?

We need SWA and the other LCCs to also achieve record setting contracts. Otherwise, they will once again eat up market share and we will continue to see DAL shrink domestically. If that continues, we risk losing the entire airline because of no domestic feed to international (PanAm).

Additionally, we need the other legacies to push forward with major advances in contracts. I think if we are the first to move, we lose the farm. If we were successful and restored the pay, what would the average increase in the price of a ticket come to? Would our passengers be willing to pay it? Additionally, I would imagine furloughs as a result. And as a new hire, I would accept that assuming we didn't bankrupt the company. It just sickens me that companies like SWA who chipped away at everyone else, is now the industry leader in pay, yet, they are a far cry of what the industry standard used to be.

I know there's a lot that I need to learn here, and I'm welcome to be ridiculed for my young and ignorant thoughts.