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04-29-2015, 04:27 PM
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Does it help? Who knows
Can it hurt? Nope.
I fill them out because I have seen (first hand) politicians inquire as to how many of our members support a given issue. It gives our government affairs guys more ammo when they are in there dealing with (sometimes) irrational, (nearly always) short-sighted, self-serving politicians that only seek to please the highest bidder OR the one that can offer them votes/influence/support.
We are at a severe disadvantage in DC because "they" will always have deeper pockets. We need every edge we can get, and then it still might not be enough.
Good on you Diesel for seeing the importance of these issues, even as a "Delta noooob." I think we may have met about a month ago. War Eagle?
Ten, thanks for filling it out again. It is a pita, but worth our time.
Can it hurt? Nope.
I fill them out because I have seen (first hand) politicians inquire as to how many of our members support a given issue. It gives our government affairs guys more ammo when they are in there dealing with (sometimes) irrational, (nearly always) short-sighted, self-serving politicians that only seek to please the highest bidder OR the one that can offer them votes/influence/support.
We are at a severe disadvantage in DC because "they" will always have deeper pockets. We need every edge we can get, and then it still might not be enough.
Good on you Diesel for seeing the importance of these issues, even as a "Delta noooob." I think we may have met about a month ago. War Eagle?
Ten, thanks for filling it out again. It is a pita, but worth our time.
They are easy to send out. I received an auto response from my representatives.
04-29-2015, 04:37 PM
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Carl
04-29-2015, 04:47 PM
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Careful, Carl. If sailingfud's company-provided talking points are debunked--if he's forced to give a straight answer to your quite succinct questions--the fallout may be worse than Raymond missing Judge Wapner.
04-29-2015, 05:29 PM
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2.25 billion in 2011
2.48 in 2012
2.78 in 2013
2014 looks like tp it will come in above 3. Numbers should be out in a few weeks.
I find it interesting with a straight face you can claim pilot costs have not increased. Manning has not gone down yet Saleries are up almost 21% plus the increases in profit sharing.
04-29-2015, 05:32 PM
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04-29-2015, 05:35 PM
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Andy Dufresne? Same Andy Dufresne that were abused by the Sisters down in the laundry? The guy that spent all that time down in solitary and was hung by the shirt collar four stories up. The Andy that was rich lawyer and then a forgotten convict? The one that crawled through a mile of human dung? The poor soul that caught Susan Sarandon on the downside? No, I don't want to be like Andy.
Your mistake was to think that in my analogy, you're watching the movie. Actually, in my analogy you and I, and 12,000 more, are the inmates.
Write the letters, get the books.
04-29-2015, 05:41 PM
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04-29-2015, 05:43 PM
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04-29-2015, 05:51 PM
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I know you will say the numbers are wrong but they match up with the numbers I have seen going back to 01.
Again anyone with two touching brain cells can look at the increase in hourly rates combined with manning staying the same relative to block hours and know things are not cost neutral. When you add in the increase in PS to be cost Nuetral Delta would have had to furlough several thousand pilots.
04-29-2015, 05:58 PM
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Yet it appears that scope concessions are going to be part of any deal presented to us, if this article is to be believed. The fact that TSA and SKW have both aircraft already ordered would lead me to think that a deal has been informally agreed upon, and the details are all that's left. After all, our 717 order was contingent upon our agreeing to a contract. Here it would appear that agreement, in principal, has already been reached... these orders are booked.
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