Originally Posted by
DAL73n
There's one problem with your numbers - most of us want an improved standard of living and if you take inflation into the equation then our standard of living has barely kept pace with inflation. Also, our 2008 starting point for those salaries is the worst in Delta history - even worse than 1996 (which was referred to after the fact as POS 96 and led the way to the C2K contract because everyone was so militant). Your point being that our 2008 starting point for our salaries was acceptable. I don't.
US inflation is about 11% from 2007 until today. If it averages 3% for the next three years (it's about 2.3% right now) total inflation from 2007 until 2015 would be about 21%. The Delta pay rates including the TA from 2007 until 2015 would be about 53%.
I'm not advocating, just calculating.