Anyone care to ballpark the Feb 2013 profit sharing check as a % of our 2012 pay?

A little short on time, so I didn't want to have to peruse the Delta financial statements if someone had a round-a-bout %.

Thanks.

 

Word is RA is having department heads with hold spending in order to increase our annual profit enough so that we as employees hit the higher % of profit sharing.

 

A little help, SoCal guys. Where do we park at SNA?

 

Christmas shopping?

 

A number I heard tossed around was 6%...not sure how accurate that is, but you'd better tell your wife it's 3%.

 

I think those numbers are spot on, although the AA TA may pass because of the "pull up the ladder" mentality, group think within the mother base, etc. It is amazing how quickly we all ended up with the same scope clauses, almost miraculous.

Any word on Alaska's attempt at a section 1? I hear some over there are concerned DL's 717 may take some of their flying.

 

Hi Denny,

Agree on UCAL.

I think you might flip those % for AMR. They're getting to the end of the exclusivity period, and the end of their max leverage with Horton. My gut tells me neither the pilots nor management want to talk merger with LCC from a position of weakness.

In fact, I really wonder if it will be LCC at all. JetBlue puts them in a great position in New York, which is critical. PHL does nothing for Horton, and neither does CLT. For the pilots, now that it could come to an integration, I doubt they want LCC. I think this slowly brings the vocal, but desperate mating dance with Parker to an abrupt end, as Horton and APA engage in some violent but unsatisfying make-up sex, and focus their energies on screwing someone else. Kicking Parker out of the car with his pants around his ankles becomes the icing on the cake; they put the pictures on fb, and move on.

AMR has a strong history, and a strong sense of identity. I think they want to assimilate or conquer, not marry. I'm going purely on instinct here, and have no specific intel, but I expect a surprise, with the vote yielding the first clue.

 

I really doubt we are going to take any of their flying. We put something like 6 passengers average on each code share flight with them. They might be more concerned about the possiblilty that we might build a new terminal in SEA which would give us more gates to add capacity there. At the moment we are basically maxed out.

 

I could not agree more. I think AA will merge with JBLU and expand AS code share, UAL will buy AS and subsequently bring DL and AA west coast hub feed to a stand still. AA is still the 800# gorilla; lower costs, high yield hubs, lower debt and now a more efficient fleet. They will be competition you simply cannot look away from. I would not want to work for AMR nor do I look forward to their exit strategy.

 

True, but then again most of us have been telling our wives some things are twice as much as they are. A pilot's wife is already conditioned to cut things in half.

Mentally, that is.

Unless you misbehave.



So I just tell her she's getting... six.