Is the beer free? If so, I’m in.

 

Even an act of god requires Delta to pay furloughees.

 

Boomers greedy?

Can we get judges call on defining 'greedy'?

Just want to make sure im doin it right. Lol

 

I don't see how you read that in his/her reply. Look, I'm going to get furloughed as well and I'm a Gen X. I find it hard to believe that you are unaware that there are senior pilots on property--even ones who have never been furloughed--that have still had a tumultuous career. Having your pension (deferred compensation that they were promised) stolen, and I mean stolen, from you was the height of legalized robbery. Then they were told with a straight face, "well here's a 401(k), try and make it up." Now the market tanks and they'll be effed in yet another fantastic way. Emotions are raw and we all say dumb things. But, "boomer" pilots are not going to furlough you or me. Ed Bastian is going to do that and then he's going to screw the senior guys some more for good measure. God help us all. Sorry to rant, next beverage is on me!

 

And you,re, building solidarity one pilot at a time. Get over the victim hood. We all went through difficult times. Next we're pulling up the ladder.

 

Well there is unfortunately a few on either end of the seniority list that don’t see eye to eye. All I can say is junior guys need to take their blinders off and see the big picture. You will be senior some day and will be able to fly to 65 or longer if well when the age changes again. Senior guys need to remember how fearful we all were till you were at lease 20% up the list from furlough. This all comes down to sticking it out together to keep the contract attacks to a minimum so all the pilots at Delta have a good career.

 

we earned it

 

karma is a *****

 

My vote for greediest is the OG.

Original generation. They lived in.paradise.....and tossed it all away for a piece of fruit.

 

Even if that ends up beng the case, if we furlough to the bone (let's say to the 10K pilot level in your estimate) and then Q2/Q3 2021 demand would require 12.5K pilots, we just played ourselves. This is a huge threat going forward and one of many reasons having the ability to rapidly flex up (much faster than recalls and AE advancements would allow) could be critical for our survival and certainly revenue, profits and growth going forward.

SIL's and lower ALV's will drive much faster returns to bigger profits on the other side compared to shortsighted mass furloughs.