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If you oppose bankruptcy, what do you suppose as an alternative?
Delta has no choice but to dump debt obligations, or the Company will go away and the net result will be the same - no payments. To the tens of thousands of people who currently work and earn a living a Delta, your attitude towards them seems cavalier, Sir.
Bankruptcy is designed to balance these interests. The principal concern is for the future of the business, which does not bode well claimants no longer engaged in the productive functions of the business.
If you remember how the Eastern guys were treated you know how this business gets.
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Well here’s the thing. I never said the choice was a pleasant one. The first couple of airlines (UAL & USAir – especially UAL) should have had a bit tougher time wringing out the bankruptcy process, to the detriment of everybody else in the industry, than they did. The whole system is flawed, and I don’t know how to fix it.
I’ve met too many UAL folks who got/kept their jobs at UAL for the pension. Remember there are other employees than pilots. The folks “no longer engaged in the productive” blah blah blaa did their part and had the expectation of the company doing its part. I’ve heard from too many that they are going to have their pension robbed from them and still their company is going to be run into the ground.
That is where the General’s cavalier attitude comes in. The folks who retired can’t come back and work a bunch more years to make up for their management’s short falls. The current employees should have the money the company owes them and can find other employment if it comes down to that. The past employees should have what's owed to them. If there are enough assets to keep going then great. I’m not happy about that solution either, but it is how the free market is supposed to work. Right?
What ever happened to personal/corporate responsibility? If I go out and get an interest only loan for the big house and car, get into debt up to my eyeballs, and lose it all when I bet everything I own on the market should I still keep the house and keep on betting? Or should my creditors get paid and I move into the Maytag box by the freeway?
DAL isn't going to chapter 7 any time soon, and don't try and spin my remarks to mean that I want that to happen either. I just think the whole thing sucks.
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