Your points are valid to an extent. Perception however is everything. Management will have to cough up some major money to the other employees after we sign if its a great contract.

We took the highest percentage paycut among all employee groups. Our guys had been furloughed as well for more than half a decade. So it is only fair to get that re-instated. There will always be other employee groups crying foul about pilots getting paid more. For them, I say go and join a flight school.

You can point to airlines with better contracts then Delta. Management is going to point to other examples. USAIR is actually are biggest competitor on a overall passenger basis. We compete on virtually ever Eastern Market. What are their payrates?

That's very convenient for the management to compare us to the lowest common denominator. RA does not tell his customers that they are being flown by industry 'average' professionals.