Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
Our bagtags and lanyards ought to say "C2016: Industry-Leading EVERYTHING!" and we ought to start wearing them now. Time to start shaping the battlefield.
That should be our (and DALPA's) goal...not three years from signing, or in a couple of cherry-picked areas using the company's/DALPA's jointly formulated fuzzy math.
That's fine, but I do not believe that an industry-leading contract will be enough. From reading through various industry contract comparisons, we already lead the industry in a majority of areas. Even bringing us up above everyone else in the remaining areas would not be enough to restore our buying power to that of 2004, 1996, or any other years you'd like to name. (Even C2K did not fully restore Delta pilots' buying power to that of the late 1980's.)
I believe that, to the extent that the Company is as profitable as it was in the late 90's, we should be compensated as we were in the late 90's (adjusted for inflation).