Let's hope this is for parts and not a wholesale takeover..... SLI's are way too stressful!!!!

Go find my posts from mover six months ago. I told you that when AMR filed that they were too big of a target not to go after. Lets see what Parker does tomorrow. This is getting very interesting and will get more interesting shortly.

US Air took Delta to school on how to bid up assets in bankruptcy. I'm sure Delta would actually like to have some of these resources. It is a win win, unless the last bidder pays more than the resource's earning potential.

IMHO, Richard Anderson may be the best CEO in the business at the moment.

ONLY if we get a 6 1/2 hour minimum day, 78 hr reserve guarantee, 80 block guarantee, and extra week of vacation/year, a min. day's pay (see above, 6 1/2 hrs) for each day of training, and some CONSIDERABLE pay & credit for initial training. And that's just off the top of my head. A 20% raise won't BEGIN to address what we SHOULD be paid. Today's contract is a concessionary bankruptcy contract, and don't ever forget it!
Rant over...

Quite right. As did AMR with PAA back in the early '90's. DAL + AMR would be mind bending in terms of scope and size, even if assets were shed. The new DL would put America firmly in the lead of global air transportation for the foreseeable future.

I'm pretty sure management didn't like the idea of everyone leaving APC. "Quick, we gotta come up with something for these guys to talk about! There are way too many boring pages about website censoring policy." "Yeah, that's true. How about an AMR merger?"

Update 12-02 LOA 29 Implementation - Seniority on Reserve

Very good update just posted on new Reserve Utilization Order guidelines and Raw Score Buckets. Two real positive changes are:

• Specific trip preferences for Yellow Slips, to be awarded by seniority
• Short Call is now credited towards raw score

Good job to the MEC Scheduling Comm.

The new scheduling preferences are a huge gain mid-contract for reserve pilots. It will give us at least some control over our schedule and what trips we fly.

Great job to those guys.

Toot Toot!

Could this rumor just make it more difficult for AMR to reorganize?
Even though Delta has no intention of actually buying AMR, the creditors now think their paper is worth a lot more than it was yesterday.
AMR was counting on those guys taking pennies on the dollar. Now they're gonna want dimes and quarters.

Maybe Anderson will tell the MEC his true intentions in "closed session".