While I no longer have avested interest in the "regional"/major" airline biz, I find it abhorrent that DAL would attempt to extort concessions from the Comair pilots with hopes of empty promises of "more aircraft".....AND THEN HAVE THE AUDACITY.......
a short few weeks later, allow the president of Delta to retire and take a SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLAR RETIREMENT PACKAGE. It is my understanding that the concessions asked of the Comair pilots were about $8 million.......I guess having Leo take a paltry 8 million in retirement would have been out of the question in order to not have to ask a labor group making between $22K and $100K for "concessions".
I find it absolutely morally outrageous that this kind of scenario is acted out evry day in this, and other businesses, by people who feel that they are somehow entitled to these massive "retirement" packages and other "perks" and "retention bonuses" while at the same time beating their workers into oblivion.
It's not as if Leo or virtually any other airline "manager" of late has done a particulalry exemplary job of doing ANYTHING except driving the destruction of once proud companies.
The abashed greed, thirst for power, deliberate abuse of their employees amongst these individuals who's names will go down in infamy, is a moral outrage in my book.
I applaud the Comair pilots for having the fortitude to "just say no" to the egomaniacs of DAL management. Taking a stand in the face of an unknown future takes guts. God bless 'em for doing so. And I hope the Comair MEC shoves the request for concessions down Leo's throat. The hypocrisy is isn't even subtle.
Those who (place themselves) first will be last, those who are last will be first. ( A paraphrase, I know, but it fits.....)
a short few weeks later, allow the president of Delta to retire and take a SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLAR RETIREMENT PACKAGE. It is my understanding that the concessions asked of the Comair pilots were about $8 million.......I guess having Leo take a paltry 8 million in retirement would have been out of the question in order to not have to ask a labor group making between $22K and $100K for "concessions".
I find it absolutely morally outrageous that this kind of scenario is acted out evry day in this, and other businesses, by people who feel that they are somehow entitled to these massive "retirement" packages and other "perks" and "retention bonuses" while at the same time beating their workers into oblivion.
It's not as if Leo or virtually any other airline "manager" of late has done a particulalry exemplary job of doing ANYTHING except driving the destruction of once proud companies.
The abashed greed, thirst for power, deliberate abuse of their employees amongst these individuals who's names will go down in infamy, is a moral outrage in my book.
I applaud the Comair pilots for having the fortitude to "just say no" to the egomaniacs of DAL management. Taking a stand in the face of an unknown future takes guts. God bless 'em for doing so. And I hope the Comair MEC shoves the request for concessions down Leo's throat. The hypocrisy is isn't even subtle.
Those who (place themselves) first will be last, those who are last will be first. ( A paraphrase, I know, but it fits.....)