This is not the chicken and egg dilemma. First you buy the airplanes, then you hire the pilots, and if you get the bodies you get the dollars. Airplanes without pilots do not transport passengers. If they can't go they won't pay. If you were once profitable at a given number of passengers, and now are not, that seems more a management problem than a question of getting some one to fly the airplane. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant McKenzie" <gjmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:09 PM > But dollars, not bodies, drive revenue and turn a profit. > > From: Gerard M Foley <gfoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:26 pm > > > > Even odder than the initial claim of force majeure is that > > "passenger> numbers" (instead of the more meaningful "revenue") > > should be used as a > > > trigger. > > > > > > - Bob Mann > > > > > > Roger & Amanda La France wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > > > >The move comes as a result of an arbitration panel ruling that > > > >furloughed pilots could return to their jobs should the airline > > see its > > > >passenger numbers return to the level Delta had before the > > disaster, the > > > >Journal said. > > > > Bodies, not dollars, fill seats. > > > > Gerry