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Old 08-08-2013 | 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy
I understand your opinion. But I'd rather see the hard data to justify the decision, and would rather have my union provide it, than Delta. But that's just me.


I was actually struck more by the tone, than the data, which I glossed over. To be fair, I went back and looked at the data provided.

Initially, I don't quite know how to make sense of the last chart. I don't actually understand the title. It appears to be a chart that shows how much bigger a pilot's monthly credit would be, in order to increase average pay/calendar day. If I understand correctly, in order to make average pay/calendar day move from 5:20 to 5:49, the total amount of credit on a line would have to go up ~70%. Or maybe it's ~70% more synthetic credit pay, which I have no way of equating to a monthly cost.

I assume, but can't confirm, that the first chart shows that system-wide, in July 2013, that going up to 5:49/day would increase credit time by ~ 12,000 hours. In which case, we may be saying the Company is finding that ~1 hour/pilot/month is too expensive to make better rotations. Or is it more like 2 hours/pilot/month, since we're not including all fleets?

So, I have no objections to the union putting up data. If you're going to put up data, put up data to support our objectives. It would be 100% fine with me if the union had said the cost of making rotations that yield 29 minutes more/day, which gives us X more days at home on average, is about 1 (or 2) hour(s) per month per pilot. I think most guys wouldn't be surprised to have the Company explain that it finds this to be too expensive when they present their side of the story.

Where I balk, is when we write this in as an introduction to the last chart:

"...While overall rotation pay did increase in our testing, its increase was marginal compared to the percentage increase in both synthetic credit and deadhead hours..."

Why are we arguing that this benefit is marginal?