Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
Because of the very fact that its context was not included -- the fact that they were presently making this kind of money because of their staffing levels, money that was in no way guaranteed by their contract. Take Delta's staffing levels down to that level consistently and across the board and you'll see a similarly substantial inflation of our compensation from what is guaranteed under the PWA.
Again. You miss the important point here. We should have defined our objective as restoration and used that data point to bolster our case. At the time, they were making that kind of money... in spite of the efforts of numerous DALPA apologists to dispute it. Heck, you even disputed it today in one of your posts where you tried to cast doubts on the validity of the data by claiming it amounted to nothing more than a "sales pitch" to the AirTran pilots. And then when I call you on it, you redirect to this nonsense about staffing levels and contractual guarantees. One thing I'll say for you, Alan... you are a moving target.
And one thing you're missing with your latest redirect is the number of days the average SWA pilots were working while they were making all this extra coin. According to the SWAPA data, they were averaging 18 days off per month. 18. So now, maybe they have even more days off? I don't know. But I do know that 18 days off is pretty darn good. Now, I would assume that 18 days off number includes vacation, etc... so the average line at SWA at the time was more than 12 days. But compare that with how many days the average Delta pilot would have to work to average that kind of coin.