Delta Payout Numbers For Accepting Merger Published....

[Occam's Razor]

So juinor DAL gets 28,000 and Senior NWA guy with a pension gets 40,000

The relevant comparison is: Junior DAL and NWA get the same. Senior DAL and NWA get the same.

The frozen pension has nothing to do with the payout. Where that piece comes into play is in the DC amounts. Senior NWA gets zero...and junior NWA gets a lot.

I know!....I know! Those silly, easy-to-access facts are kind of a rant kill....but I'm sure the truth is more important to you than false theories driven by emotion and ignorance...right?

All we hear is this is a aquistion and not merger!!

Nah, what your heard was your mom yelling, "Turn off the television and come down to dinner!" When you move out of your parent's house, all that will be over.

VOTE NO, this is BS.

Attention "no voters": This is your peer group!

Oh by the way we DAL are funding the NWA penisons to the count of 26million bucks.

Fact: YOU ain't funding anything at NWA! The frozen pension plan is being funded by NWA under the Pension Protection Act. It's one of those law thingys they taught you about in school. The annual funding amount varies, based on the interest rates and fund performance. The maximum it can be is just shy of $26-million.

If you need a simple analogy, you're marrying a chick with student loans....and a great job. Her income can more than cover the loan payments, and she has more cash than you.

In this case it's just as relevant as Scarlett Johansson's SAT scores: It ain't.

VOTE NO, there is to much stuff that they aren't telling us line guys.

Correction: There's a bunch of stuff they HAVE told you, but you haven't bothered to analyze. The facts are available, but you're gonna have to go to the website(s) and read.

If you feel compelled to vote "no", you should do it for legitimate reasons....you know, reasons based on facts.

 

[RedRum]

So juinor DAL gets 28,000 and Senior NWA guy with a pension gets 40,000 That is bigger BS then uga being ranked number 1. All we hear is this is a aquistion and not merger!! VOTE NO, this is BS. Oh by the way we DAL are funding the NWA penisons to the count of 26million bucks. VOTE NO, there is to much stuff that they aren't telling us line guys.

I don't eevn know where to begin on this post. You claim that YOU are funding the NWA pensions? 'Fraid not sir. It is the junior NWA guy that financed that plan.

Here's a question for you. If you took the money you are making now compared to what you would be making had the 2500+ DAL pilots NOT retired, what would you be making? Now take that number and multiply that for the length of time the 2500+ have been gone from DAL. I am sure you will be very happy with what you see.

At NWA, we did not get a mass exodus. Instead the junior pilots had our DB frozen (mine is ZERO), and the MP3 plan was negotiated.

I just don't see where the logic of voting no because someone other than myself receives a little increase. Life is too short to measure yourself against other people.

I am sure we can agree to disagree on this one. It's just a perception issue. I can't speak for the senior NWA guys. They have gotten a good shake in their careers. I can't argue with that, nor can I complain about it either. It's just the way it happened. Some people get the breaks. But, the junior guys at NWA deserve every equity dollar they get. They earned it just like the senior NWA pilots earned their DB pension. It isn't going to equal out in the long term. Senior guys win out there, but I am not going to sit here and vote no because they end up in a better position financially.

 

[NuGuy]

If you feel compelled to vote "no", you should do it for legitimate reasons....you know, reasons based on facts.

Ok, now you're just being silly...

Nu

 

[767/757]

So juinor DAL gets 28,000 and Senior NWA guy with a pension gets 40,000 That is bigger BS then uga being ranked number 1. All we hear is this is a aquistion and not merger!! VOTE NO, this is BS. Oh by the way we DAL are funding the NWA penisons to the count of 26million bucks. VOTE NO, there is to much stuff that they aren't telling us line guys.

Please take the time to call your LEC reps or DPN to get the FACTS first. All the information is out there for all of us line guys to see - nothing is hidden.

I looked at all the facts, the industry, the economy, and talked to my MEC/LEC (who has access to SEC documents/business plans). The yes vote was easy.