Airlines are feast or famine. Right now a massive feast is going on. Billions in profits, stock buy backs, etc etc. pilots took big cuts and had a lot of stagnation over the last 15 years. Delta pilots should go after a lot more, they deserve it.
And when we open up, wouldn't you rather have our negotiators going in and saying, hey delta pilots have less RJs, and get paid 30% more than us, better PS, better sick leave, instead of just marginally better than what we have now. It would make our gains that much better.