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Ahhhhh.....So......if the "business plan" DOES change (of course, I know that NOTHING changes in the airline business in 2 1/2 years) you would be willing to "redo" the SLI right?Ya know, since you want to base the SLI on future plans and all. That would also apply to changes in the DAL fleet plan within 2 1/2 years of DCC right?
Heyas DTW,
This is EXACTLY why SLIs are never based on what the company MIGHT do after the merger.
1) DAL has no legal standing to adjust fleet deposition prior to closing the deal.
2) Many Deltoids on this very forum refuse to consider the 787...why? Because "it's not here yet...it only MIGHT show up...its a paper airplane"...despite the fact that Boeing has never not delivered. Using that same logic, there is no reason to believe anything that isn't already set in stone. As of right now, the fleet plan for NWA is the same as it was in March, per NWA MANAGMENT, who are the only people, as of yet, that have any legal standing to make such plans. Anything else is speculation.
3) Believing anything that comes out of magament as to what they MIGHT do is ridiculous. Remember RA said that he WASN'T there to do a merger?
4) The SLI will be based on KNOWN quantities based on fleet compositions as of the date of constructive notification (March). Not what "might" happen at some nebulous date in the future and subject to change at a moments notice (or drop in oil), nor based on some DAL management flunky's random musings.
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OK, Both....First of those is gauge. You say the DC-9 pilots should be STAPLED due to gauge, yet DAL MD88 pilots are not STAPLED below 320 or 757 pilots...they are integrated. What a double standard! Your staple logic only makes sense if you also staple everyone else, in blocks, into the combined list based on guage.
Second is because they are going away. We are to sentence hundreds of NWA pilots to the bottom of the list, junior to hundreds of DAL pilots hired up to 10 years later, based on an assumption/guess, that can't be supported by any official comment? (in fact, the only public comments on the subject by DAL execs say just the opposite).
Wow. Very reasonable and fair logic there.
Exactly!! Its nothing more than a seniority grab. This week ought to make things a wee bit more interesting. I am looking forward to the middle of the road outcome. Its coming up quick. :beer:
1st week of November. Slid no more than a week, and only if a specific DOJ report takes much longer to complete.
What'd I win?
1st week of November. Slid no more than a week, and only if a specific DOJ report takes much longer to complete.
What'd I win?