Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
...You have to look at the risk-reward of some other opportunity to meet life/retirement goals if your current employer is not willing to rationally share in the gains. Its business and nothing personal from what my of the pilots I have talked to who are looking. They want DAL to get it right, but their families come first...
ACL, In a rare moment of lucidity you
concisely captured the essence of what's broken for pilots in this equation. ;-)
Successful company = shareholders gains = employee gains
Any imbalance in this equation is unsustainable and management knows it...
$1B sustained profit in tough economic times is off-the-chart successful for an airline.
But now Ed is on record at trying to bring cost in line with 2010 because CASM is up, and he wants pay to shoulder more than half of the increase in cost...
The displacements from the top tier equipment just might help accomplish that task by bumping a whole bunch of pilots to lower paying categories. remember it's status quo as you enter negotiations. Setting the bar lower
now is a brilliant strategy.
Cheers
George