"From an investment standpoint, Delta Air Lines (DAL) no longer wants to be a passenger carrier.
The airline is instead targeting the kind of consistent financial returns Wall Street has come to expect from railroads and truckers, from UPS (UPS) and other “high-quality industrial transportation companies,” as Delta executives explained repeatedly during the airline’s annual investor conference in New York today. “We no longer benchmark ourselves to the airline set,” Delta President Ed Bastian told analysts."


I guess that explains why DALPA doesn't think it appropriate for us to expect compensation as good as FedEx, UPS, and SWA pilots. Gotta keep it "realistic," given our "competitive set."