Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
Timbo, you are a model pilot.
In the years I've anonymously known you on the internet you have never been one to say me first. we should all be that way as we climb the seniority list, even if we climb due to a push off a curb or down an escalator.
Thanks for the kind words, but I was and engineer on the B Scale for all 5 years and then a F/O during POS 96, it's always been 'One step forward, two steps back' when it comes to our contracts. In my 30 years here, I can honestly say the only 'good money' I've seen were the 4 years from 2001-2004.
That's it. 4 out of 30.
And there were many concessions in our C2K as well, but Delta was earning an unheard of amount... $1 Billion, that's how we got those pay rates. And we leaped over UAL and the NWA strike in 98 helped push them up too. I never forgot the sacrifices made by others to get us here.
And now we are earning how much? $1 Billion per quarter? More?
And this POS TA won't even get us back to 2004 rates until 2018? And NO payback for the $1.4 Million they took from my DB plan?
Are you KIDDING ME??
If we can't make HISTORIC GAINS when Richard is buying back $5 Billion in stock and doubling the dividends, we are idiots.