Ok Big Guy, let's get down to business here.
By self admission, you ARE NOT an employee of Delta Airlines. This raises the question of your true love and passion for the company?
What is your motivation here? You can't tell me that you have this much interest in a company that you have no ties to? I'm not buying into it, and believe that you have some type of motivating factor here. I know that you would have a rise in your shorts if US went out of business, leaving the entire Southeast and a good part of the Northeast to Delta. Didn't Delta heavily count on this a few years ago as part of their own recovery plan? In your narrow minded love affair with Delta, have you ever thought about the THOUSANDS of people employed by US and the families that they support? There is room in the country for more than one major airline, although you would love for Delta to become the Aeroflot of the USA. Now that Delta has merged with NW, you think that nobody else should reap the benefits of becoming of equal size to Delta. You have spoken negatively about every other airline, while pounding your "Delta is the Greatest" drum over and over again. All of your constant Pro-Delta BS could make me Puke. I have been on these boards for a long time, and have seen thru your BS. Do you have a friggen pair of Delta Boxer Shorts for crying out loud? Other than gaining some support from the anti AA/US crowd, you have had squat for support with most of your One Sided Delta Posts. I like Ford products, but wouldn't spend 23 hours a day lurking and posting on a website that was primarily used by UAW employees, unless I worked for them that is. Why are you so preoccupied with the possibility of a US/AA merger? Does it pose a threat to Delta? Hell, you even chimed in on the CLT expansion thread with your Delta minded opinions. Will CLT expansion draw traffic away from ATL?
There is no way that you are this involved with all this Pro-Delta crap, unless you are in upper management with them, or a lobbying for them. You appear to be anti-union as well, which fits perfectly into the management mold.
US has been thru several rough times, and survived them all. I applaud Parker for trying to do whats best for the long term survival of the company as well as its employees. He can only work with what he has. Many have credited him him with getting the industry consolidation ball rolling as well. If I worked for Delta, and they were prospering, I wouldn't give a rats arse what US and AA were up to, unless I felt threatened by them. You do nothing more that spew a bunch of negative opinions in your page long posts. Nobody is in the terrific position that Delta is, Nobody does anything as good as they do, and so on. I'm surprised that you didn't put a spin on the DL 737 incident in ATL by saying that a US A/C ran them off the taxiway while trying to catch an AA A/C.