Fittingly, the airplanes in the photo accompanying the story are not mainline Delta.

Sure it's a worthwhile improvement, but many of us uprooted our families so we wouldn't have to worry abut commuting. Unless it benefits most/all of us, you're not going to garner any support. In case you didn't notice the company isn't in the habit of just giving things to the pilot group. What exactly do we have to trade so you can PS to work?

The last 3 years I've been about 50% in category and every year I was able to slide an early Dec. Vacation to cover 23-29, BUT... my category has always had adequate staffing.

If you are in a 'short' category, where unstacking will be happening a lot, 50% may not be high enough to slide it.

Another reason to be glad we rejected the TA. MD could have agreed to help with this strategy by agreeing to have Delta liveried aircraft/an entire airline like Skymark operating in Delta paint with crews employed by someone else.

Also, to reward themselves for all the tax savings, Management could have completely redone their pay structure and paid themselves entirely out of the profit sharing pool. I.E, they could have improved the bottom line for Wall Street, while at the same time increasing their pay at our expense. Sailing fun says they wouldn't be able to do it as they're already compensated very well, but nothing was to stop them from changing where their pay came from and taken entirely from the profit sharing pool.

Another "Well, we didn't think they'd do that." When will we learn to get all the language in iron clad writing before the threats of a PEB?

And Sailing, quit defending them and advocating for them. If you're a pilot, stick with us. If you are Management, just go away.

YGTBSM.

You understand that there are very limited protections in our current PWA and that the change to 1.E. in the rejected TA was an improvement, right?:rolleyes:

Yesterday a major airline analyst wrote about Delta changing tax strategy for international operations. Here's what Hunter Keay of Wolfe Research said:

DAL has made public comments about a desire to lower tax payments in the context of discussing its international operations, initially at its Dec-14 analyst day. We’ve spent considerable time evaluating potential actions in this area and we expect DAL to announce specific tax initiatives at its analyst day next month. We view this as a catalyst for the stock.

Many options. DAL may establish one or more international subsidiaries to shelter some profits from U.S. taxes while keeping its AOC as long as the parent company remains U.S.-based, regulators were convinced that citizenship and control requirements were met through clear operating agreements, and aircraft were housed in the U.S., enabling FAA oversight. This feels like the most likely outcome but we also evaluate more exotic options for DAL like a full blown tax inversion (a reincorporation outside the U.S.) or earnings stripping (e.g., establishing an Irish leasing subsidiary).

Karma police. DAL has strong opinions on many regulatory topics like Ex-Im and Gulf Airline subsidies, to name two. With Ex-Im now likely being renewed and unclear progress on the Gulf airline subsidy issue it seems DAL has increasingly less to lose from the Hill in the event of a bold tax saving move, which may be met with displeasure from regulators. But if regulators are going to tax airlines heavily (both overtly and covertly) and then pile it on further by investigating them for price fixing when prices are clearly falling, well… this is what they’ll get, to paraphrase Radiohead.

We know of no specific plans by DAL. But we do know that DAL has an NOL tax shield that should burn off soon, DAL has specifically mentioned Amsterdam as a “good place” in the context of discussing lowering its effective tax rate, and we know DAL is unafraid of taking bold, calculated and unprecedented risks. Especially lately.

I know, you "didn't think they'd do that". Sheesh.

Slow, you shrugged off the statement that TA15 would've given that power to the fMEC Chairman.

Shrugged off? That power now resides with Richard Anderson. I guess we'll enjoy the ride.

Anyone know of where to get a charger for the surface tablet? I left mine in Mex City. I stopped by staples..special order, ...online searched Best Buy, no luck as there seems to 40 million hits but they all seem to be for a Surface 3....this tablet seems to be obsolete. Got a trip tomm and don't have time to order one. Thought I might find a universal one maybe somewhere...
Any suggestions? Also can we plug in a USB cable to the port and charge it that way?

Thanks..

The Non Tech Guy.

Chief pilots office will give you one for free.

They also had them at crew outfitters at A19 in ATL.