Originally Posted by
poostain
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That would be expected when you merge with a company with that has 258 narrow body aircraft and 62 wide body aircraft. Then you shed 24% of those wide body aircraft (62-15 cargo 747)and 20% of the narrow body fleet (68 original DC9's -52). Every body moves down you are fat with pilots, you don't hire for years and pilots move to bases they deem more desirable which in the case of this merger appears to be LAX, ATL and SLC. I would say SEA but since it's not a hub and all
Just to be fair the original Delta pilots did the same thing to the original Western pilot bases. It is what it is.
In 1988, I was a BOS based 727 F/E, standing in the SLC pilot lounge, the day the Bid Award was posted, that put 40 767 slots into SLC. As I looked down the list, the top 20 767 possitions were all previous 727 Capts. and the next 20 were all 737 Capts. The Delta pay rate on the 767 was about DOUBLE what the former Western 737 pay rate was.
Yeah, the Western guys REALLY got screwed!
Western was mostly a 737 Airline, They had some 727's too, and 5 DC10's, replaced by Delta's L1011's on the west coast, oh, and then there were all the MD11's Delta put into LAX.
I just hope that some day, before I retire, somebody buys Delta, and Screws me like that!
You can have my date of hire, and my Seniority Number, just double my pay and put me into a brand new wide body, when I'm looking at retiring off a 737....