Originally Posted by Avroman

It's a failure because there were a lot of yes votes bought with the sales job that the SSP would be basically what PSA has. Walk in, shake hands, say "yes I want to work here", and get your new hire paperwork. That is not at all what we have. So half this pilot group basically got sold a bag of used baseballs. Yes it's great (minus the year + waiting to actually get a class date) for about half. The other half got yet another screwing out of this contract. Take away the longevity payout and the SSP and then redo the vote and see what the results would have been. The payout was less than one year's lost pay and the SSP didn't cost much if anything for the company to give, at first. The failure of the SSP is because of how poor the numbers were, it gave FO's no reason to stay here and wait their turn. This caused the mass exodus last year. That required the company (Delta) to pony up $20K per pilot to keep this place from fully imploding. Had they gotten their hiring department under control and did what was sold to this group, many FO's would not have jumped ship, but waited their turn as senior guys moved on. That didn't happen of course and the rest is now history.