Don't confuse them with facts about overall compensation, some pilots are destined to poke their eyes out while looking down soda straws at pay rates.

It's an easy bet that the aggregate annual W2 earnings of Delta's top 30% seniority, is higher than numerical 30% of UAL's seniority flying the widebody operation. That seems to be the misplaced gist of this thread.

United has a 1.6:1 WB advantage over Delta today, but that ratio will change rapidly through 2017. Both airlines are in the midst of renew/replace/retire cycles with their wide body fleets and within 18 months the ratio will be closer to 1:1 AND Delta pilots still have a superior profit sharing plan.

Anywhooo, good luck to all of us, more WB flying is better, period. I'll stick by my comment about how mouthing off how awesome things are based on a sliver-sized snapshot of a macro cycle is kinda douchey. Fortunes can change in a heartbeat.

Good thing CAL saved UAL and brought so much wide body flying to the table.