Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Don't forget those $400 million in increased pilot costs were more than offset by over $400 million in pilot concessions. That's why management refers to our contract as not only cost neutral, but allows them to invest in initiatives to benefit other employee groups at Delta.
It's good to know that with our help, all other employees at Delta are back to their pre-bankruptcy wages.
Carl
It is simply not correct Carl, and just because you keep saying it over and over again doesn't change that truth.
The $400 million is the NET (as in after all the pluses and minuses) increase in YOY costs that are now enriching the bank accounts of Delta Pilots.
Let me repeat it for others, because you really don't get it: DAL reduced a couple hundred million in DCI expenses on one part of their ledger and that amount was then put into the pilot PWA.
Cost neutral to the overall enterprise but significantly cost positive to the Delta pilots.