Originally Posted by
Delta1067
How did he screw over the ASA pilot group?
Here you go.
Originally Posted by
ilinipilot
This is the biggest point I believe people are missing about this deal. All our pilot issues aside (and they are important issues) this Pinnacle deal was a huge win and cost saving deal for Delta. If I am not mistaken dont most of our new contracts with the regionals have a provision in them that they (regionals) have to be among the bottom 2 or 3 lowest in pay? If thats the case then with Gojets and Pinnacle being rock bottom in prices that will force the costs down at ASA and Skywest too. This was a brilliant deal by Delta as a back door way to force down costs.
(1) Pinnacle secured "committed" aircraft from the limited number available for DCI carriers.
(2) They did this through the use of pay cuts
(3) To remain competitive it is likely that the other DCI carriers will be forced into concessionary bargaining.