2558 Executive Hostages... sick times!
#81
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#82
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Going forward, I actually think we are in a better position. All of the people who thought they were white collar or still leadership and were ready to help out the company with suggestions from the peanut gallery, have been given clarification on their actual position in the scheme of things. We are bit rate hourly employees who are entirely dependent on seniority for their quality of life. Merit may have gotten you the job, but it has very little impact on your life compared with that seniority number. Hand out wings to kids and push folks in wheelchairs if need be. Understand that Delta hired you because you have those traits in your makeup(regardless of source-mil or civ). But you better also understand that if Delta management thinks they can save a dollar but cutting you, your ass will not catch up with you for a week.
There are many teams at Delta. Pilots are not on the management one.
#83
Some to this very day, on this very forum try to perpetuate this legend, albeit there seems fewer and fewer as days go on.
#84
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It wasn't a scam. Delta has been stupidly profitable for the last five years or so. Hell, they wrote all our names on a plane and there was rolling thunder for everyone, right? For guys who came straight from the military in particular, it is 100% understandable that this colored their view. For those of us "lucky" enough to have made a stop in a toxic sh!thole like an ACMI or some contentious environment like a regional going through contract stuff, a lot of us were happy for the money in these years but had eyes wide open for this. The older Delta guys had seen this before and were ready.
Going forward, I actually think we are in a better position. All of the people who thought they were white collar or still leadership and were ready to help out the company with suggestions from the peanut gallery, have been given clarification on their actual position in the scheme of things. We are bit rate hourly employees who are entirely dependent on seniority for their quality of life. Merit may have gotten you the job, but it has very little impact on your life compared with that seniority number. Hand out wings to kids and push folks in wheelchairs if need be. Understand that Delta hired you because you have those traits in your makeup(regardless of source-mil or civ). But you better also understand that if Delta management thinks they can save a dollar but cutting you, your ass will not catch up with you for a week.
There are many teams at Delta. Pilots are not on the management one.
Going forward, I actually think we are in a better position. All of the people who thought they were white collar or still leadership and were ready to help out the company with suggestions from the peanut gallery, have been given clarification on their actual position in the scheme of things. We are bit rate hourly employees who are entirely dependent on seniority for their quality of life. Merit may have gotten you the job, but it has very little impact on your life compared with that seniority number. Hand out wings to kids and push folks in wheelchairs if need be. Understand that Delta hired you because you have those traits in your makeup(regardless of source-mil or civ). But you better also understand that if Delta management thinks they can save a dollar but cutting you, your ass will not catch up with you for a week.
There are many teams at Delta. Pilots are not on the management one.
#85
It wasn't a scam. Delta has been stupidly profitable for the last five years or so. Hell, they wrote all our names on a plane and there was rolling thunder for everyone, right? For guys who came straight from the military in particular, it is 100% understandable that this colored their view. For those of us "lucky" enough to have made a stop in a toxic sh!thole like an ACMI or some contentious environment like a regional going through contract stuff, a lot of us were happy for the money in these years but had eyes wide open for this. The older Delta guys had seen this before and were ready.
Going forward, I actually think we are in a better position. All of the people who thought they were white collar or still leadership and were ready to help out the company with suggestions from the peanut gallery, have been given clarification on their actual position in the scheme of things. We are bit rate hourly employees who are entirely dependent on seniority for their quality of life. Merit may have gotten you the job, but it has very little impact on your life compared with that seniority number. Hand out wings to kids and push folks in wheelchairs if need be. Understand that Delta hired you because you have those traits in your makeup(regardless of source-mil or civ). But you better also understand that if Delta management thinks they can save a dollar but cutting you, your ass will not catch up with you for a week.
There are many teams at Delta. Pilots are not on the management one.
Going forward, I actually think we are in a better position. All of the people who thought they were white collar or still leadership and were ready to help out the company with suggestions from the peanut gallery, have been given clarification on their actual position in the scheme of things. We are bit rate hourly employees who are entirely dependent on seniority for their quality of life. Merit may have gotten you the job, but it has very little impact on your life compared with that seniority number. Hand out wings to kids and push folks in wheelchairs if need be. Understand that Delta hired you because you have those traits in your makeup(regardless of source-mil or civ). But you better also understand that if Delta management thinks they can save a dollar but cutting you, your ass will not catch up with you for a week.
There are many teams at Delta. Pilots are not on the management one.
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It wasn't a scam. Delta has been stupidly profitable for the last five years or so. Hell, they wrote all our names on a plane and there was rolling thunder for everyone, right? For guys who came straight from the military in particular, it is 100% understandable that this colored their view. For those of us "lucky" enough to have made a stop in a toxic sh!thole like an ACMI or some contentious environment like a regional going through contract stuff, a lot of us were happy for the money in these years but had eyes wide open for this. The older Delta guys had seen this before and were ready.
Going forward, I actually think we are in a better position. All of the people who thought they were white collar or still leadership and were ready to help out the company with suggestions from the peanut gallery, have been given clarification on their actual position in the scheme of things. We are bit rate hourly employees who are entirely dependent on seniority for their quality of life. Merit may have gotten you the job, but it has very little impact on your life compared with that seniority number. Hand out wings to kids and push folks in wheelchairs if need be. Understand that Delta hired you because you have those traits in your makeup(regardless of source-mil or civ). But you better also understand that if Delta management thinks they can save a dollar but cutting you, your ass will not catch up with you for a week.
There are many teams at Delta. Pilots are not on the management one.
Going forward, I actually think we are in a better position. All of the people who thought they were white collar or still leadership and were ready to help out the company with suggestions from the peanut gallery, have been given clarification on their actual position in the scheme of things. We are bit rate hourly employees who are entirely dependent on seniority for their quality of life. Merit may have gotten you the job, but it has very little impact on your life compared with that seniority number. Hand out wings to kids and push folks in wheelchairs if need be. Understand that Delta hired you because you have those traits in your makeup(regardless of source-mil or civ). But you better also understand that if Delta management thinks they can save a dollar but cutting you, your ass will not catch up with you for a week.
There are many teams at Delta. Pilots are not on the management one.
#88
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This is why I think furloughs go deeper than 2558 here. Sure maybe only 2558 this year, but I think it continues until this thing turns around.
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I think they are being realistic. In the memo they say that the plan all along was the 2300ish by the end of the year, and then another 1600 furloughs during 2021.
This is why I think furloughs go deeper than 2558 here. Sure maybe only 2558 this year, but I think it continues until this thing turns around.
This is why I think furloughs go deeper than 2558 here. Sure maybe only 2558 this year, but I think it continues until this thing turns around.
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I think they are being realistic. In the memo they say that the plan all along was the 2300ish by the end of the year, and then another 1600 furloughs during 2021.
This is why I think furloughs go deeper than 2558 here. Sure maybe only 2558 this year, but I think it continues until this thing turns around.
This is why I think furloughs go deeper than 2558 here. Sure maybe only 2558 this year, but I think it continues until this thing turns around.
If we furlough the full 2558 plus 2000ish VEOP we would be down 27% of our pilot group in 18 months. Cutting beyond that level means the company/industry/economy is all in jeopardy as that means almost zero recovery has happened in a span of 2 years. Look how quickly things changed May-July. When recovery begins it’ll be noticeable.
Right now the industry and the economy has paused in large part to corporate America throwing in the towel for 2020, they are assuming 2021 will be a recovery year. They have been afforded that opportunity by CARES 1 providing corporate well fare to wait and read the scene (ironically everyone like to bash the $600 a week for the reason recovery is slow).
My uninformed, view from the flight deck, opinion is that 2021 will limp in and start slow as the election and vaccine result starts to sink in. Spring will see the beginnings of corporate dealing happen. By the fall there will be opportunity every where for all industries for whoever survived this horrible year. Or we sink into a world wide depression and series of terrible wars that shape the rest of our millennial lives.
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