Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver

If it's a competition to see who's the highest paid, then they've placed pretty high (almost won, but then there's that pesky SWA).

If it's pursuing the objective of restoring our profession and putting our careers back on track, then they've been a miserable failure... essentially sustaining the 32.5% pay cut we took almost a decade ago in an extreme emergency! Yeah, DALPA's set the bar for formerly bankrupt carriers. And that's part of the problem IMO... They've set a bar that essentially says we agree that we're not worth what we used to be and that we don't expect restoration. I think a good case could be made that we (DALPA) have screwed the pooch for the entire profession by demonstrating acceptance of bankruptcy as a new baseline from which we only expect "reasonable" improvements going forward. Imagine how much better everybody else might be doing if we had set a higher bar...