Originally Posted by sailingfun

Delta reps have been critical of APA because they have accomplished exactly nothing. When you talk of full restoration as mentioned before you are talking 2 billion a year in increased expense to Delta. Great if your senior and wont be here long. Perhaps not so great if your junior and have a lot of years ahead of you. If we achieved that type of contract there would be fallout in many areas. Delta would be unable to finance aircraft at decent rates. The other employees would quickly make Delta a far worse airline then we are even today. Customer service would be below the lows we already achieve. I think we would start to shrink and furloughs would soon follow if not another chapter 11.
I am all for restoration. I just disagree with what many post on here as to how to achieve it. Had American opened for some nice gains and signed a contract 2 years ago that would be amendable in 2012 where would we be now. It would be the benchmark contract. UAL and CAL would build off of that setting us up for bigger gains. Sadly that is now history since AMR failed to get anything done.
Still its a lesson for the future. If and that is a if we can get a contract done at or near the amendable date with reasonable gains based off the new UAL contract and SWA that puts us industry leading I think that is a far smarter method then getting iced like AMR by the NMB. We can then be exchanging openers in 2016 on the next contract with the other airlines having followed are 2012 contract. The other options is demand full restoration now. We will still be making that demand and working under the current contract in 2016. I have listened to many pilots state they will except nothing less then full restoration plus inflation. When asked to outline a strategy to achieve that you only get silence.
I want the highest quality of life and most money I can get out of Delta. I don't see asking for 2 billion a year in contract improvements as having any chance of providing that. Give me a sound strategy to achieve that and I will back it 100 percent. I have yet to hear anyone offer even a long shot method to get there.