Originally Posted by tsquare

I will try this again. Let me ask you a question first. Answer in your own mind. What year are you? I will use a 7 year Comair captain on the 76s that makes $79/hour. Factoring in DAL vs CO benefits package, I would highly doubt if we could fly it for $50/hour and remain competitive...

Comair has no 7 year Captains. Our bottom 76 Captain is at 22 years, and every 76 Captain at Comair is maxed out at $105/hr (and a pile of vacation). It doesn't derail your argument, but I wanted to correct the record.

But then there will be those that say.. get 'em here and THEN worry about the pay. Sure. That rate would be so far away from what would be acceptable to the group so as to render it practically unobtainable (I want to live next door to Michelle Pfeiffer, but no matter how badly I want that I am pretty sure I could never get her neighbor to sell to me for what I think is fair). Next question. Once they are here... at $50/hour.. no let's say we could get current CO rates of $79... would you be willing to go to war over THAT?? Really? We would have NEW HIRES in the left seat of that airplane.

Delta already has NEW HIRES in the left seat of that airplane (the 70), but their hat says GoJetsss. Well, they would if they had hats. Wouldn't it be smarter to have Delta new hires than GoJetsss new hires in the left seat of any plane carrying Delta passengers?