Originally Posted by
tsquare
OK.. here are a couple of bullet points.
Our TOTAL compensation is better than SWA. I will take our payrates PLUS the 401k contribution over their deal every day of the week. That and the fact that a captain at DAL makes more than both the captain AND FO at LCC combined....
Would you rather have the reserve system at AMR? I recently asked a couple of guys in my crashpad why they were there so much... didn't they have ling call, they asked me... dead seriously.. "what's long call?"
Do I want more money? Absolutely. Do we deserve more... Again.. absolutely. DO I think the doughnuts are gonna get me -88's 73% increase all in one fell swoop without giving up some of the other stuff we have, not a chance in hell....
So what you're saying is you're not a donut?
T, I don't hate my life, I like it. DAL is my employer and a darned great one.
Much of what we are yammering about will become moot with the impending pilot shortage, demise of all regionals and hiring and training footprint. Pilots will be a valuable commodity once again and all those US expats flying for emirates will be flocking home. Future contracts will be able to monetize all of this. To retain pilots, domestic airlines will have to guarantee careers and their earnings.
Academic exercise aside, this will all happen and relatively soon.