Originally Posted by sailingfun

There are a couple of problems with your statements. The first is that no other employee groups at Delta are close to the buying power they once had. In fact you could make that statement about the entire industry. We do have some employee groups making the same hourly wage however that's a small part of the story. Their retirement went from a 60% FAE plan to a 6 % DC plan. Large employee segments were moved to part time. Other groups simply had their jobs eliminated or moved to DGS.
The second is stating how little we cost. Pilot costs have historically run from 6 to 10 percent of the cost to produce our product. You will not find anyone who has ever run a business call that little especially in view of the fact this is a industry with many fixed costs.
When you start this campaign management will simply state that Delta pilots are the best compensated pilots in the US passenger airline industry. The rest will fall to the NMB. What is your plan for them.