Originally Posted by
DoubleTrouble
So here is a question for the MEC? Where is the costing for this agreement? Was the MEC shown the costing and are they mow sworn to secrecy?
Without costing I am inclined to believe that TA is cost neutral to DAL at best, and could be a cost savings agreement.
The MEC was briefed on costing. Direct compensation is "hard" numbers. Much of the changes to Section 1 have very different costs in the eyes of management and ALPA (JV protections, code share restrictions, furlough protections) so are "soft" numbers. The manning changes created by this agreement are dependent on business plan execution so are "soft" numbers. All of that was briefed.
If Delta was going to save $1billion in RJ costs and put $1billion in your pocket instead how are you worse off?
As to "cost neutral"...again, this agreement takes money out of one of Delta's accounting silos and
puts it into ours, a significant plus for pilots. Delta management has a very different target audience (we're less than 1/6 of the employee group) and a lot of interested parties in New York City and Washington, D.C. Note that Bastian was at a financial conference both the day after the TA was announced and the day after our TA was ratified by the MEC "explaining" it to investors.
Originally Posted by
scambo1
You can choose to believe whatever you want, but you poison the (reasoning) pool if you put your hope and theory out there as fact.