Guys and Gals,
Chill out, all this stress is hard on the ticker and management loves it!
UAIR management has made some bad choices along the way, guess who is paying for it? The employees in general and the pilots in particular. Look at UAL, great company, great employees, lackluster management. Who gets the bill, the employees!
All this DAL,CMR and ASA crap aside, the sooner y'all realize you play for the same team, the better. Just like Song, despite how you all feel, you are part of mother Delta!
The DAL pilots, despite their perceived arrogance, is helping us all, by standing firm on getting a deal and more importantly, seeing a plan, that will lead them to profitability. Yes, GG says he will not negotiate, but he is going to have to. A contract is a contract! If a company is to face cuts in expenses, it would be unfair, and unwise fiscally, to put the entire burden on one group.
The CMR pilots went on strike, to get a liveable wage, yet some feel the "overpaid" DAL pilots should just give GG what he wants. Sorry, must call BS on that one.
If J.O. at Mesa gets hold of 73 and deploys them, with freedumb pilots and profitably manages to compete with us all, our pay will soon see the crapper.
People are already linning up to fly for VirginUSA, although no one knows of the pay. That should give you time to pause. People like the ones who PFT, are more than willing to sell this down the river, figuring that a great job will be at the end of the rainbow, but if we all keep being asked to give, it will cease to be a great job.