Originally Posted by
keenster
It might just be that you are mistaking S guys for N guys. Most of us N guys don't want to loose flying to the 777 but that is the companys decision not ours. 777 guys probably don't like giving up jfk-nrt and tlv either. Hopefully they have some really smart people in yield management and put the right planes on the right routes. My one big worry is that I'm not sure DAL knows how to max out cargo revenue. Many times on the 747 most of the people were gravy because of the cargo load.
Certainly could be. I'm not sure about that. All I'm saying is that it's not new flying, it's just different or moved flying. Not a lot to get excited about. We've been losing pilot bases for years. We lost SFO, SEA, PDX, DFW, ORD, MSY, MIA, MCO, and LAX is just a shell. So to move time to different bases is nothing new to DAL S guys.
I don't know about how NWA's pilot groups (not DAL N) contracts and union decisions went, but for DAL, the most senior guys always seemed to get a better deal somehow. This merger was no different there. The top guys were protected with a fence on both sides. I have mixed feelings about that, but then I missed all of that and should not dredge it up again. What it is, is what it is.
As I mentioned a few hundred pages back. I think this management is a better group than we've had since Dave Garrett ran the place. In the past, we have always been told "There's no money in freight." Our facetious response was, "Yeah, FedEx will never make it." Their response was that they were set up for freight and we weren't. Maybe this group will come together on the freight thing.