Originally Posted by
DelDah Capt
Well, if you take the incredibly small sliver of the highly opinionated DL crew on this forum as "the will of the pilots", I think you do so at your peril.
I realize you weren't there at the time, but the irony of this whole Profit Sharing discussion is that when it was first introduced in LOA46 (and later massaged in LOA51), the majority of the pilots thought it was a joke. Mired in a string of massive annual losses, most pilots rolled their eyes when the union tried to point to Profit Sharing as a plus in what were otherwise hugely concessionary agreements. The common refrain was A) We'll never see any profits B) compensation shouldn't be tied to something that pilots have no control over and C) even if we ever do show a profit, Delta will find a way to cook the books to ensure we never see a dime.
Fast forward a decade and now something that the pilots generally scoffed at has become untouchable in some cases. I think it's great that we have benefitted with some great profits, but I think we did a lot of that while our main competitors were in the garbage can. I'm not sure that's the case anymore. I hope we continue to kick tail, but I'm not sure that's a guarantee. If we somehow converted it into a fixed 20-25% raise on day one plus whatever other raise in pay we had coming......I'd sure listen.
100% of us would listen. The point of all this PS discussion is that we believe DALPA will trade the profit sharing for a % raise equal to what we give up and sell it to us as a raise like they did in C2012.
I would love to give up PS in return for a 16-20% raise (what it is projected to be in 2016). However, that raise needs to come on top of any other contractual raise. So we are talking of a minimum of 30% DOS if they want to boot of off the PS plan.