Originally Posted by
sailingfun
http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2...20AIRCRAFT.htm
I know you will say the numbers are wrong but they match up with the numbers I have seen going back to 01.
Again anyone with two touching brain cells can look at the increase in hourly rates combined with manning staying the same relative to block hours and know things are not cost neutral. When you add in the increase in PS to be cost Nuetral Delta would have had to furlough several thousand pilots.
I know it's likely everyone sees this, but notice how sailingfun starts off with stating
pilot costs from forms computed by Delta, but ends up showing the same discredited MIT study as his source.
Then sailingfun discusses how contract 2012 vastly increased pilots costs by gathering data from an outside study that...ends in 2013.
Here's what the sailingfun's refuse to admit: We made some gains in
pay rates in C2012, but we also agreed to significant
concessions that offset those pay rate gains. It offset it to the point where Ed and Richard called the pilot's contract cost neutral and the additional savings could be used to invest in initiatives that benefit other employee groups at Delta.
Carl