John Culp Quotations

It's just the start of a new phase. There's nothing to preclude our talking up to and through the hearings.

It's just temporary. It gives time for many elements of Delta's business plan to become clearer.

We were interested and committed to bridging this gap. ... But management was clearly not committed to the process.

We don't like the position we're in. But we feel time is of the essence.

It's not something we enjoy doing but we feel management has taken a turn for the worse in the last several years. We're in constant negotiations, but their demands are egregious.

For Delta senior executives to point out that the top paid hourly employees at an airline are mostly pilots is like pointing out that the top earners in a law firm are mostly lawyers.

If you bang one on, your passengers automatically think you are Navy.

No airline in the modern era has resorted to contract rejection to get what they want and we will not willingly work without a contract. If they reject the contract, we'll keep all legal options open.

They were trying to pocket the money they weren't contributing to the defined benefit pension plan, and we called their bluff on it.

If the deal's not ratified, we end up back in court. I don't have any inkling of which way the vote's going to go.