Finally a rational post from Bill "Lawnchair" Lumberg!!!

Glad your starting to see the light.

 

I already think the deal is a good one. Short duration, good pay for 3 years, 200 fewer 50 seaters, 717s. You and your friends have grandiose plans that don't float in this environment. I have complete faith in you that you'll figure it out. Have a great day!

 

The "six years later" part pointed to waiting atleast 6 more years for a resolution. Thanks, you also see it rationally too. Hallelujah!

 

Why would they be happy when it's voted down? They'll certainly know the pilots aren't happy with it. I doubt RA wants investors and passengers to know the pilots aren't happy. It would go against everything he's previously said in the press. He can, however, make them happy.

 

I think that the ultimate plan is another merger for Delta. RA wants labor peace before he initiates this move. If we don't have a contract done the pilots will do everything possible to slow down a merger. One only has to compare our merger vs. US/AMwest or UAL/CAL to see the value that we gave Delta.

Back to the original post. If this TA gets shot down my belief is that the company will quickly come back with another offer. Why? Because the next merger will not be smooth unless we're on board as happy campers

The worst case scenario for us if we shoot down this TA is that the 717's do not come and the company somehow would end up with 255 76 seat RJ's. I can live with the worst case results if the TA gets shot down.

If one believes a merger is around the corner, good chance the company will come back to the table in a hurry. Just my .02

 

...you forgot the part where we change the language from the PWA and allow an increase in the 76 seat fleet without growing mainline first and on top of that they don't have to park 70 seaters anymore.

And by the time this is all said and done we'll have more jumbo RJs then we currently have CRJ-200s, 325 vs 324.

 

Free Bird, actually if we ever got to 255 76 seaters it would be because we added 86ish jets to the mainline cause. Until then 153 is their cap on CR9s and its bigger friend the E75.

 

We need to grow a pair!

 

Not many Pro TA types like to admit that the 70/76 seat cap of 255 will get raised to 325 if we approve this TA. Any guess what the next cap will be when we do another merger?

 

I'm aware of that, just thought the audience understood that point. Point is that I can live with whatever happens if we vote this down.