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Originally Posted by gloopy
While it appears they missed the mark big time on the refinery, its hard to argue with anything they said in the other one about VA.
I'm looking hard to see a net upside (for DL pilots) but I'm not able to balance the ledger on that yet. Especially when we could end up blowing the better part of a billion dollars to lock in a massive share of more foreign pilot lift, most of which to cities we already fly to.
Look at it this way:
It may not give the DAL pilots a ton of WB jobs, but what it may do is stop Turkish and Emirates from gaining a base(s) of operations which is a lot easier to get to then DXB.
Think of the mess and job loss we and other US pilot groups may see if EK would be successful in gaining more LHR slots or buying a carrier like V Atlantic. It would all a lot of one stop connections for most of Europe out of LHR from point in Europe, the ME, Africa and SE Asia, not to mention what it does to the UK-US market.
The deal may not be good up front for DAL pilots, and the true gain may never be known, but it may stop a situation where we see a frontal assault on the US airline industry from a point of operations a mere four and a half house away. (it would be way too close to home)
06-10-2018
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