DAL junior Pilots sold down the river by NEW MEC

[Papa Woody]

Same Sh!t, different Sh!tbags....

I'm almost physically sick.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

 

[lookin4better]

more 76 seat RJ's not flown by mainline pilots = barf

 

[ACL65PILOT]

yep, the question is what are WE going to do to change it. It is possible.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

yes. What are we willing to do to make it happen...?

 

[slapstick]

In seemingly unrelated news, the FAs have decided that they will merge their lists by DOH.

This was published in the Delta Daily Dribble. I'm surprised more wasn't made of it.

Nu

I heard our FA's new seniority list puts all of them within a half percent of their former relative seniority.

 

[Voice Of Reason]

The story I was told was that the MEC Chair is the "Grievant" in all greivances. Therefore they are settled to his satisfaction.

In related news ...

Delta CEO gives bleak assessment of demand
Delta Air Lines chief gives bleak assessment of air travel demand
Harry R. Weber, AP Airlines Writer
Thursday February 12, 2009, 6:50 pm EST
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ATLANTA (AP) -- The chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines Inc. gave a bleak assessment Thursday of demand for air travel amid the enormous financial strain that many Americans have been under in recent months.

In a recorded message to employees, CEO Richard Anderson did not specifically say the world's biggest carrier plans to cut more jobs or capacity than previously announced, though he did suggest the erosion in demand that the airline has seen has been very difficult.

"Passengers, our customers, are not buying tickets at rates they were buying tickets a year ago," Anderson said. "Obviously, we wish we didn't have to decrease our capacity, but we cannot fly our airplanes around at low load factors."

Atlanta-based Delta has previously said it expected about 2,000 employees to accept the company's latest round of severance offers that were made due to its plans to reduce systemwide capacity in 2009 by 6 percent to 8 percent. The window for employees to accept the severance offers closed at midnight Wednesday.

Anderson did not say in his message late Thursday how many employees accepted the offers or how many jobs the company would ultimately cut.

He did say that Delta would work through the numbers and look at who has chosen to take the packages and align that with the airline's needs.

Anderson said Delta needs to right-size the airline based on customer demand.

"The economy is very difficult," Anderson said. "It seems every day we read about companies announcing layoffs by the thousands."

He said customers are tightening their belts, not spending as much on vacations. As a result, Anderson said Delta will need to react quickly.

"A strong, durable airline is truly the only job security for all of us," Anderson said.

The voluntary severance payout offers were made to a majority of the 75,000 employees at Delta and Northwest's mainline operations.

The program is similar to one earlier in 2008 that Delta used to trim about 4,000 jobs. Northwest Airlines previously trimmed jobs of its own before being acquired by Delta on Oct. 29.

Delta and Northwest's mainline operations include 75,000 employees. The entire company, including regional subsidiaries Comair, Mesaba and Compass, has about 85,000 employees. The 12,000 pilots of Delta and Northwest, as well as certain management and administrative employees, are not eligible for the voluntary severance programs.

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Didn't someone say on here that pilots were NOT given the voluntary leave offers everyone else was????

WHY NOT? Wouldn't it be cheaper to keep newer guys on the payroll, oust the senior daddies and prevent furloughs of your guys???

Is this YET another Moak screwjob? Surely you ave alternatives other than a guy who is buddy buddy with the CEOs...how much "comp" are they giving him anyway? Disclosure of accounts anyone? Just a thought..certainly APPEARS suspicious

 

[Voice Of Reason]

so yesterday?

Compare this from two WEEKS ago (below) to above article from today:
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Delta posts $1.4 billion loss, expects 2009 profit

By LIZ FEDOR, Star Tribune
January 27, 2009
Delta Air Lines, which reported a fourth-quarter loss of $1.4 billion on Tuesday, expects to make money in 2009 despite a global economic recession that has kept many would-be travelers grounded.
Delta CEO Richard Anderson said that the carrier will be "solidly profitable" this year because of lower fuel costs, reductions in Delta's flying operations and about $500 million in financial benefits from the merger with Northwest Airlines.
The year won't start off well though: The carrier said it will have a "sizable loss" in the first quarter, when demand historically slackens.
Delta shares plunged 20 percent Tuesday, closing at $7.93.
Despite oil prices remaining low, Delta will have higher fuel costs at the start of this year because of hedges put in place when fuel prices skyrocketed last year. In retrospect, Anderson said, the hedging became "an expensive insurance policy."
After oil hit $147 a barrel last July, Anderson said, "no one could have predicted that oil would fall so precipitously." Crude oil settled at $41.58 a barrel on Tuesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
For 2009, the Atlanta-based airline is sticking to its December projection that it will reduce domestic capacity by 8 to 10 percent and trim international operations by 3 to 5 percent.
"We're seeing softness throughout the domestic economy" in the form of fewer bookings, said Ed Bastian, Delta's president and CEO of Delta's Northwest subsidiary. Among the combined carrier's seven hubs, Bastian said that Delta is seeing the greatest decreases in Detroit and Cincinnati. The Minneapolis-St. Paul hub is "staying relatively healthy," he said.

February and March bookings are down, and the London-New York JFK route has been hit particularly hard. Consumers, wary about spending, often are booking their trips nearer to departure. Delta executive Glen Hauenstein, who oversees ticket pricing and flight scheduling, said people are "hesitant to make investments in their future, whether or not they're looking at stock portfolios, washers and dryers or airline tickets."
Delta, which acquired Northwest at the end of October, released quarterly results that included Northwest's financial performance. Based on those combined figures, operating revenue was $7.8 billion, or flat, on a base of flight operations that were 4 percent smaller.
Operating expenses increased 23 percent to $9.5 billion. The lion's share of Delta's quarterly loss was associated with a noncash charge for employee stock awards that amounted to more than $900 million. Delta also recorded a $91 million loss on out-of-period fuel hedges.
Bill Hochmuth, a senior research analyst at Thrivent Investment Management in Minneapolis, said he was "a little surprised" by Delta's stock slide Tuesday. Hochmuth, who deals with fixed-income investments, said that Wall Street investors may have viewed Delta's revenue picture as weaker than they expected. Unit revenue is expected to be down 4 percent this year.
But Delta anticipates a 6 to 8 percent full-year operating profit margin.
Steve Loucks of Eden Prairie-based Travel Leaders, which has about 500 travel agencies across the United States, said his company had a 20 percent decline in airline bookings during the fourth quarter.
Loucks anticipates another tough year in 2009, but he said there's been one bright spot:
"Because of the extreme weather we've had, we've seen an uptick in business during the last month." The brutal cold in many regions of the United States motivated many consumers to take advantage of discounts being offered by airlines, hotels and other travel-related companies, Loucks said.
He expects the discounting to continue to encourage jittery consumers who still have jobs to spend money on travel. Business travelers also are taking advantage of deals and booking well in advance to get cheaper air fares.
"It is serving as a stimulus to our travel industry," Loucks said. "We aren't going to get a government bailout. It's welcome when suppliers are willing to price their services at an attractive price."

Liz Fedor • 612-673-7709


© 2009 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
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[Dan Roman]

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

What's with you guys who "throw up in your mouths a little" every time you hear something you don't like?

 

[FDJ2]

Spare me the DMC - at least we stood our ground and didn't just role over and play dead.

No, you were slaughtered by the arbitrators who threw out every one of your proposals and methodologies. But you did stand your ground.


We still did way better than what you had intended for us in the opener.

Wow, congratulations, you did better than an arbitration opener. Good on you.

Don't take it personally though, you weren't the first group to be confident in an arbitration position and end up having it rejected.

 

[FDJ2]

You were confident in your posistion only after you cut and run in the spring. You were not so confident then and that cost us, all of us money and a better contract. Your fear of arbitration then led to loa19, which was a tradeoff btw King Moak and RA for a less costly contract but with his assurance that the company would not accept any sli(final say) that would put the y'all at an disadvantage due to the demographics. This is the only reason y'all all of a sudden embraced arbitration, albeit with a worse contract but insurance on seniority.

Thanks for the good laugh. :laugh: