Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
a prominent DAL exec said in response to the suggestion that our pay should be restored to 2004 levels: "We didn’t need temporary relief due to a short-term issue – we needed to reform our business so that we are profitable." That's the mentality we're dealing with.
And we did that. Pensions were frozen/dumped and they are never coming back. Medical costs have been dumped on the employees permanently. Productivity is much higher and gone are most of the micro-empire triple dipping jailhouse lawyer work rules. Gone is the third pilot.
There is no intellectual arguement whatsoever for us not getting SWA pay plus reasonable premiums for obvious reasons plus a full COLA going forward plus significant work rule improvements plus significant progress towards SWA scope.
Any and every claim that we "can't afford" that is an indictment of incompetent management or incompetent union leadershp, depending on which one is making that claim. SWA/SWAPA have no problem making it work. If DL/DALPA scoff at the viability of SWA parity one or both are full of it and needs to be properly educated by the DL pilot group.