Originally Posted by
vprMatrix
It will be interesting to see when it comes out. I got the idea like ACL's friend that a lot of the spicifics were off limits and only general terms could be used.
TO did say that the AF/KLM gross pay was significantly higher than ours but net was similar due to taxes. The problem I see is those pilots get a lot of "nationalized" benefits from those taxes while we take a lot of those benefits from our net. I would like to see some kind of comparison on "equivalent" compensation kind of like our EKSM JV metric. Realistically that is probably going to be impossible to do.
As to a government mandated vacation system, no thanks.
-vpr
My point is that WHO CARES what the "net takehome" is!
What is the COST to the Corporation per pilot? If an AF/KL pilot pays more taxes, it doesn't affect the corporation ANY differently!
Since we are in a JV, all the costs and revenues are shared.
This means when DAL
per pilot gross costs are lower than the
per pilot gross cost of AF/KL pilots,
DAL pilots are subsidizing AF/KL pilot pay!
I want to see that eliminated.
Per pilot cost is the metric the company needs to consider, and taxes taken from that are a function of government, and the burden of the individuals who live in that nation.