Originally Posted by dtwairbus320

You are absolutely right about that but I don't think Delta paying you or I what we're worth is going to raise the ticket prices. Look how much Delta has made. They can afford to cough it back up to us and settle for a more modest profit. If I were management, when these annual reports come out with these astronomical profits, I would think to myself "Oh ****, now the pilots are going to want their money back." But hardly any of us seem to think that way. We just get excited about our profit sharing checks and fail to realize all the other employee groups are getting their profit sharing checks too. Guess which labor group allowed them to have their's?

My point was also meant to be more broad. As an entire profession we must demand the highest compensation equal to our level of expertise. If we were truly a unionized workforce in the true sense of the word, every pilot at every airline would be making the same amount based on the job. Just like the Pipefitters and these wages would be kept high. There would be no pay comparisons among airlines. We would all be pilots payed according to our union's schedule. If the airline can't afford to pay us what we are worth, then they don't belong in the airline business.

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