Originally Posted by alfaromeo
Each time that Delta gets a new more efficient aircraft the MEC has tried to capture some of that efficiency for the pilots in terms of higher pay rates. That is what we did with the 737-800, the 767-400, and the 777. Those aircraft all paid well above what their predecessors paid.
During the JCBA, the A-320 fit in between the MD-88 and the 737 in terms of size, efficiency, and capabilities. Certainly the A-320 is a more efficient aircraft than the MD-88 with longer range. The difference is now 1.8% when the MD-88 was put with MD-90 rates, hardly a ghastly difference.
The MEC, through the pilot survey, dictated what the negotiating priorities were. Putting the MD-88 up to the A-320 was not on the pilots' list of priorities. Putting the MD-88 up to the MD-90 was. I am not sure how much simpler that gets.
You don't have to explain to me how the resolution process works. Been there done that have the polo shirt.
What people don't realize is that in the survey we were asked what we thought about a NB/WB/SPWB pay scale like CAL has. If 12-15 people from APC insisted on it, but no one else did, then it wasn't made a negotiating priority. So here we are. Yet another thing for people to be disingenuous about.
Now - since I'm on the -88 myself, I'd prefer that we just get a flat rate that's paid by the switch. But unfortunately I too see the big picture and understand that my 1.8% sacrifice helps offset the thousands of dollars of fuel the JT8D blows out the tail pipe.
Just facts based in reality worded in a different manner so that hopefully someone else will get it.