Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Well, first I'm going to assume that you meant to say, "Trust me, I agree that we shouldn't be bailing anyone out."
Now... if we had agreed to snap backs on the wage concessions (like you suggest), then we would have been getting HUGE pay increases right about now if not sooner. You seem to think that's okay, and you also say that we shouldn't be bailing the company out. So why is it not okay for us to get HUGE pay increases now until the company shows "six consecutive quarters" of profit with a 7-8% minimum margin? Do you see the inconsistency? I'm not trying to bust your chops, ACL, but you really are starting to sound like a company negotiator.
The difference is the first would have been contractual. By said date we get X back. Could have put a metric in there too, but it is of no consequence since we did not do that. The difference is that one would have been agreed to and the other one needs us to come to an agreement with the company.
I am not saying that we cannot ask for it, what I am saying is that we may not get a response unless you see the above happen. The likeliness of getting restoration with the company a marginal profit would be a long ball. Many of the pilots I fly with understand that for us to get back what was taken the company needs to be doing well. (Operational Profit) FYP, making 500+ million a quarter defiantly puts us in the range of doing well enough to put something like that out there.
In response to T, there is nothing special with six quarters, it is just the number of quarters that will pass until we start the final touches on the opener, Q4 2011 for a Q1 2012 opener.