Originally Posted by
OldFlyGuy
Just curious gzsg, where did you glean this AA= DAL+5% bit of info from? If true it can only help us! Oh, and TSquare, some Forumers are making wild estimates (very wild IMO) about the manning saved by banding. What kinda manning savings do you suppose LBP would entail? Either way a lot of training churn is saved. The jobs vacated by retirements would of course have to be filled... absent the airline shrinking. Using my incredible psychic powers I'm gonna predict LBP isn't gonna happen but banding is likely.
Oh I have no presumption that LBP is even on the table. I really gave up that fight a long time ago. I just like pointing out that since bigger pays more, and half the super premium fleet is being scrapped, that we are gonna take a paycut. Of course with all the hiring going on and the supposed growth of airplanes that we are going to get, the pain will only be felt by the super premium guys anyway. And the staffing savings from pay banding won't even be noticed.
Fire away