Slight correction: We need 23% to get back to the actual dollar pay rates Delta pilots were compensated in 2004 before we took the 42% cumulative pay cut.

To get back to the actual buying power our pay rates gave us in 2004, we need 51% today or 48% in 2015 at the end of this current contract.

Or as Larry The Cable Guy might say, "4-8-3-3 ain't gonna git er done."