Those scheduled retirements are meaningless without them being replaced by new hires. Or worse, another merger that puts the vast majority above you.

Carl

 

You nailed it, Carl

 

That merger is less guaranteed then those retirements, as is SWA's contract going only up for the remainder of their existence.

 

Hey Ex & Ferd,

In the interest of fairness, I flew with GG's oldest son for many years over at purple...as you can imagine, his take on the "bolts" is quite a bit different than the NASA line...just sayin'

Regards,
BG

 

Best of luck.... You never know until you finish!

 

I'm sure.........and I was making fun of the movie line, the real guy had to be something special to get to that level to begin with.

I'm a huge movie fan. No movie is true to the real story, the best they can be is "based on" a real life incident. "Red Tails," currently in theaters, is a fine example of a major disappointment. CGI never overcomes poor writing.

Ferd

 

I find it interesting that the AE didn't go as briefed in the roadshows, ie there were no pull down in Whale and 777 specifically or super premium widebodies in general. I wonder what level (Richard or lower?) looked at it and figured the training events were too expensive.

I'm thinking there is much more to the story.......but I'll doubt we'll ever really know.

Ferd

 

Just asking, did you include retirement contributions in these numbers?

 

We just follow you RNAV equipped guys..don't tell anyone but I've actually done that in holding patterns

 

Scoop, you're exactly right. We all try to look on the horizon to make our best estimation of how things will turn out, but you never know until you get there.

On 9/11 as I manuvered out of the flightpath of United 175, I had an idea that things would change, but I had no idea that I would go through a nearly three year furlough, my company would go through and bankruptcy, my pension terminated, and then a merger. In fact I'm almost embarassed to think of how happy I was on my newhire day. I thought all I had to do was stay healthy, fly a good airplane and take care of my pax.

So looking back, I could have never predicted what has happened in my career so far, but for the time being I'm holding on until we get through this contract and reevalutate. Many of us are taking a hard look at it right now. We have the potential to salvage a career out of this company, but many things have to come together for us. We have a good management team running the company. It all comes down to what value (I mean this literally in a cost and benefit anaysis) they place on us as Delta Pilots wearing Delta Unforms.

TC