Here is a copy of RA's interview on CNBC yesterday. Get out the popcorn.

High quality industrial company with better metrics than Federal Express.

I'd slap this on the negotiating table and include Fed Ex in our comparisons.

Delta CEO: We are a high-quality industrial | Watch the video - Yahoo Finance

 

His wife also owns close to 300,000 shares, so about 3.5 million shares total when you include options. So about $165 million in value. Delta has a ridiculously low P/E compared to the rest of the market.

 

Even the most staunch "don't rock the boat" types should be upset if C2015 contains productivity givebacks and doesn't restore to rates from fifteen years ago (without stealing from profit sharing to do it). People want to believe RA is an honest, fair human being beyond his position as CEO. There is enough money to restore C2000 with a healthy Delta balance sheet, without pilots spending more time away from home. Quite simply, given the amount of money Delta has pouring in, it's the right thing to do. Now is the time.

Any DALPA guys that sign off on a TA that does not restore C2000, need to be purged from ALPA work permanently. When everybody hits retirement (and everybody will eventually) Richard will be sitting on over a hundred million dollars for his handful of years spent at Delta. I think it's a fair expectation that pilots should enjoy 5 to 10 for all the sacrifices that come with this job over the course of 30 plus years.

 

Not going to happen. RA was smart enough to make a purchase prior to any of this. He bought DALPA.

Carl

 

That's one rich couple...

 

Notice he mentioned 18 787s. What are the odds we get them vs trading for 737s?

 

fify.......:d

 

It's just incomprehensible why "our" "union" guys feel they owe it to RA to bail him out.

Think about it. Neither the man nor anyone in his family will ever be forced to earn money in order to survive. Ever. Yet Dalpa is allowing him to squeeze us...and even using our dues money to fund the associated sales job!

This truly is a new low.

 

787's could be the carrot!

 

Ya gotta realize if RA thinks he needs 787's, he will get 787's. No punk *** pilot will make a difference. Just repeat 717,717........