<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FWAAA:
All in all, DL is in a real bind right now. They have the highest flight deck costs in the USA yet have a very large bank balance. I predict that it will a rough couple of years until DL can trim its pilots' pay. Acordingly, I'd hate to own DL common. And if I did, I'd probably sell it. 
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maybe they should just flash-forward to what the situation will be in 2005, when next DALPA is obliged to negotiate.
how to reach the anticipated 2005 state of affairs quickly, you ask?? just transfer $1.7 of the $2.7 directly to DALPA today, and immediately start negotiating under threat of bankruptcy.
it's only going to end up there anyway through the current slow bloodletting of the contract...