Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Look at the total pilot costs from the annual reports. They have gone up every year since the merger.
And pilots are how much more efficient than they use to be? The numerical value went up but so did the revenue and the block hours flown. How did we roll into C2012 1k+ overstaffed? It wasn't maintaining the pre-DAL contract, it was pay raises offset by workrule and other QOL concessions; in essence we morphed back into NWA.
I maintain it wasn't even cost neutral, the company made out better than that.