Originally Posted by Phuz

The way I see it the executive management types at DAL are okay with subsidizing Frontier via RAH & Co so long as it results in reduced operating costs in the near term. They are beholden only to the board of directors and the shareholders, and their primary concern is showing the best quarterly results possible.

The employees on the other hand have careers staked in the company. The pilots even more so, as we all know, because unlike most other professions our pay scales start over when we change companies. As a result, one group cares deeply about not subsidizing a current and future competitor while the other only cares to the extent that it affects this quarter's results.

The point; management is risking your future. Whether or not you think Frontier/RAH is a viable competitor today, DAL is providing them with risk-free revenue which they will undoubtedly put towards their own future growth.

Apathy on the part of DALPA on this issue disgusts me. Employees not executives have built the Delta brand. Mangement will not end this debacle, the employees must. Shareholders buy today, sell tomorrow - Do we have that luxury with our careers?? Maybe some people only have a few years left and don't want to "rock the boat", but if any single employee group has the ability to influence the future of the company it is the pilot group.