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Originally Posted by Buck Rogers
I've gotten emotional responses(like yours is) but no "thoughts" as to whether Alaska and Southwest are worthy comparitors to us when considering the international component and training costs.
My thoughts are hardly emotional...
1) Management eluded to the fact that SILs would be offered.
2) They could have offered SILs to this point and would have saved a lot of money. They decided not to.
3) Ran the MOAD and made it brutal in a manner to create leverage.
4) Using the UNAs as leverage for an ALV reduction.
What they are doing is creating a reason for the ALV reduction. Your falling for it but luckily two of three UNAs aren’t.
I wanted nothing more than to stay home and keep my family away from COVID but Delta has me flying 72 hour lines with a ton of credit built into the trips (3 day trips with 6 hours of flying). They could have built more productive trips but they wanted to get blood out of as many of us as they can. Up to this point they would have saved money if I would have been parked. Not to mention all the international guys who haven’t done anything at all.
At the same time...the “fake virus”, “democratic created” crowd could have flown more hours if they wanted.
You want Delta to succeed and be the most glorious airline ever. I get that, me too. But your willingness to sell out our pilots in order to achieve an operational advantage over American, Alaska and Southwest is emotional.