The points guy about Delta reservations
06-06-2020 | 07:30 AM
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Delta management is pretty good. I find it hard to believe that they would have swung and missed at such a wide pitch. That company doesn't take a dump without wargaming every possible outcome up in the Red Brick Building. Any chance they've run the numbers and decided that another bankruptcy to slash and burn the only union contract in the company isn't the more profitable option long term? I know many who felt the last bankruptcy was intentional, and of course there's the optics of NW and DL having done it so close to each other. Stranger things have happened.
06-06-2020 | 08:15 AM
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You keep saying, based on nothing, that they are going to ask for, then actually get, a vitrual immediate release, gut the contract and try and operate the airline in a free for all with scabs. Which is exactly what anyone who goes to work when anyone senior to them is furloughed or displaced would be. Or even the imposition of mass pay cuts. Nope. DALPA would still get a say. Big time.
Not going to happen. And in whatever fantasy world you're in, if it does, the "self help" cuts both ways. They'll liquidate real quick. There's enough FUD out there. Stop piling on with doom and gloom fan fiction.
06-06-2020 | 09:03 AM
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Are we being released by the National Mediation Board any time soon? We still have mediation, arbitration, and a Presidential Emergency Board, before anything happens. For that matter ALPA has lots of “options” too but I don’t think either side is ready to start a second front in the war. I don’t think anything is a happening anytime soon.
06-06-2020 | 11:11 AM
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Are we being released by the National Mediation Board any time soon? We still have mediation, arbitration, and a Presidential Emergency Board, before anything happens. For that matter ALPA has lots of “options” too but I don’t think either side is ready to start a second front in the war. I don’t think anything is a happening anytime soon.
06-06-2020 | 11:44 AM
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It would easier is to just negotiate a new contract at some time in the future. At the moment it seems like the far future. Release to self help would take so long we would be on a rebound by then.
06-06-2020 | 11:58 AM
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He's selling the FUD based fan fiction that it could happen much, much sooner.
06-06-2020 | 12:50 PM
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06-06-2020 | 01:40 PM
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i would expect mediation to resume in the fall.
06-06-2020 | 01:47 PM
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A release to self help will certainly be part of the pressure applied to us in the negotiating process. Hopefully the rebound is very quick and we avoid all that. Regardless our strategy in mediation was that we deserve the massive contractual increases because of the profitability of the company. That’s not looking like a very sound strategy or for the next several years.
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