[Ronnie Raygun]

I'm SHOCKED at your stupidity, Chimp.

You know, I don't have a business degree either but it doesn't take one to realize that you have no understand of how business works.

You are mixing up all the numbers here.....you should seriously go back and read the article v e r y s l o w l y.

"Again, $85 million is nothing compared to $3.26 billion due to lost revenue." - Chimp

No. It's not.....

"Maybe you're getting things confused because 85 is bigger than 3.26; I'll help make it a little clearer for you. $85 million is $0.085 billion. If Delta got to keep the pilot's pay raise, there'd still be $3.17 billion of debt." - Chimp

It's so obvious that you are the one who's confused....

The 3.26 billion is money that has already been lost due to loss of revenues attributed to 9/11 and pilot pay raises. The $85 million how much MORE we are going to lose next year just from the pilot pay raise 12 days ago......so as you can see, it's completely separate.

HAHA! You're such a silly little ape.

"As Ziggy said already, 9/11 affected every airline." - Chimp

Yes it did, and unlike some we survived 9/11 thanks to the capital we have saved.

So what separates us from other major airlines other than the fact that before 9/11 we had more money than anyone else.

Exactly what I've been telling you.....the pilot labor union.

"You can't start blaming unions for customers deciding to use other modes of transportation." - Chimp

Well, other airlines can afford to droip their fares because their pilots don't make close to 20% more than any other pilots in the industry. If we didn't have that burden, we could afford to drop our fares a little.