Ty Webb
Hostage to Fortune
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NYRANGERS [i] [B]Not sure what you mean by the "senior guys expecting me to wear the orange apron". said:I mean they expect you to sit it out and work at Home Depot (or whatever) for however many years it takes.
I am sure you will not find a more supportive group of pilots in the industry then the Delta pilots.
Well, you could look over at Concourse "C". Our senior pilots voted to give up 11% of their pay in exchange for not furloughing the junior guys after 9/11. Now, that's what I call supportive! Their pay was back to normal within 60 days, in fact, we are coming up on our second annual raise since then.
One more thing........In a time of overcapacity I find it hard to understand your suggestion of us not competing with your continuous expansion.
Re-read what you just wrote. DAL "competes" by dumping seats into an overcapacity? In other words, they "compete" by increasing their losses? You call that competing? I call that ensuring losses and furloughs. At least we're charging an honest price that we can make money at.
Look, we can go back and forth over this all year. If the economy snaps back, then DAL's chosen path of preserving marketshare will pay off. If the economy doesn't, or at least if the business traveler doesn't come back, then all they did was throw good money after bad, until they ended up in Chapter 11 too.
History will be the judge.
As for your generous offer- thanks, but don't hold any place for me in that line. I made the decision to work where I did, continuously, but at alower pay scale, instead of working somewhere else for more money, with a few years of furloughs factored in. Like I said, we all make our choices. I truly wish you a speedy return to work.
Good luck to all.
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