Originally Posted by TheManager

What you post is true, but......

In the annual instructors meeting this week where Richard spoke, he said that he has:

"No problem with Delta pilots being the most highly compensated major airline pilots" as a group.

Yay!

Now, here is the other side of the coin.

He then made it CLEAR that even with Americans recent raise, we are currently more that 10% ahead of them in COMPENSATION.

Ahhhhh. Guess it's obvious where their opening position is.

PS + Pay rates + benefits = compensation. They are going to look at the whole number, not line item improvements.

Food for thought. If you go to the bank, and apply for a loan on a toy or a bigger house, etc, do they count profit sharing into their loan equations?

Yeah, pretty easy argument to win on.

We are one Putin tantrum away from conceivably watching our profit sharing evaporate. The banks know it. ALPA knows it. We should know it. The company knows it. But adopting that bargaining position has been assured because it's the most advantageous one they can try to defend to minimize our gains and their losses cause that's what this is all about.

They aren't benevolent. They never will be. They are about doing whats good for the corporation. It's their job.

Now, the ball is in ALPAs court. The company is going to make their job difficult and try to make them purchase every gain through a give back in work rules, PS, benefits, etc..

Hence, the trial balloons that have been floating around.

Hate to see those as it signals that they are not confident enough in their ability to secure outright gains.

JMO opinion. Of course, others will vary.