Originally Posted by
Woofers
The profit-sharing thing: I don't particularly like profit sharing. Oh, if the company is doing well, it's great! If not, not so great. You can end up having wild swings in your income from year to year. And although I've been a pretty successful entrepreneur in other ventures, I rather like my airline income to be stable. You and I have absolutely no control over anything that could affect profit sharing. Why take the risk? There's no upside.
This is one thing I DON'T understand about pilots...
So, the company's goal is to maximize profits. They will try to do it ANYWAY they can.
JV Flying, Scope, maintenance, extra fees for services, etc..
Delta MX handles numerous other carries overseas. Delta gains a profit from that.
Delta sells tickets on other Alliance Code Share carriers.. again, Profits for Mother Delta.
If Delta could (like NUMEROUS other carriers,) they would sell almost all tickets but outsource most of the flying. That seems to be the way the change in your JV is going.. giving Delta (the company) the chance to maximize even more profits.
So.. why would you want to dilute your share of PS?
If you are not going to fly EVERY Delta passenger (a person who buys a ticket through Delta).. then why not demand a portion of the profit from the passenger who flies from A to B with an Alliance carrier because Delta has decided to not fly that route themselves.. yet will still make a profit from that passenger and route?!
Sad that most pilots only look at Payrates without looking at the big picture and the whole CBA/PWA/TA~
Motch
PS> I realize that Woofers is probable a troll or ALPA/Management type, here to push their agenda [Join date Jun 2015?!, and this is their 1st post?!].. but had to get this point out there, once and for all.