Originally Posted by
MikeF16
I'm new at DAL bidding at about 77% and I was paid 165 hours in January and 143 in February. The problem with green slips is you have to fly them, I'm pretty worn out.
I punched out of Delta in 2005 just before the bankruptcy. In 2004 & 05 Delta had 1500 captains retire in advance of the bankruptcy creating a staffing problem that the training department could never keep up with. I flew more hours in 2004 than any other year of my career and got to the point I was turning down greenslips that paid $15K for four days because I was just sick and tired of flying.
Gerald Grinstein was the CEO at the time and donated 100% his salary to an employee relief fund, but let's just say I made more money in '04 than he donated.