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Originally Posted by 3 green
Delta cannot even staff the planes now with no furloughs..If they had furloughed, I can't even imagine how many more flights would have canceled due to no crew. So yes, I think the threat of a furlough was all for show. They were trying to get concessions knowing no furloughs were really coming.
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It's a huge confusing mess. Absent money from the feds, would we be flying the schedule we are? No company survives long running a money-losing operation, and we are still cash burn negative to this day, just not as bad as last spring. And even if mgmt had done the right thing and had conducted all the fleet groundings, VEOPs, displacements etc in the correct order (i.e. *NOT* trying to keep the FA union off the property), we'd still have a bunch of surplus pilots, just not in the bizarre way they are staffed now.
But there's so many "but consider this, and also that...." that no one (either of us included) can really make a firm statement. In fact, absent money from the feds I wonder if any domestic airlines would be flying at all right now.