Originally Posted by
JesuitValen
I'm a little shocked that posters on here think guys who didnt get the ssp didn't or won't work hard for the job. That's concerning to me. I may have got the ssp but there were hard working guys even in my group that got a soft no or the FOAD no.
If you fly with coworkers and you think 80% of them are garbage that dont belong in mainline, then you're a Delta hr person. The first waves of the ssp, before extending it to FOs to save this company gave no's to 80% of our pilots. I just cant get onboard with that thinking. Our guys arent 80% garbage.
Employers want to pay their employees the least possible, part of that is making said employee feel like they are part of an exclusive club. Even with these new contracts around the industry, pilot purchasing power is the lowest it's been in history. Hell, my current pay, even with the bonus, is far below the pay an equivalent pilot with my longevity would have made at XJ when I got hired years ago. A 76 seat jet under the 2004 XJ contract would pay close to $130 hr, not $87, and that was in 2004. Mainline pilots are just getting back to 1990's rates, with bad medical benefits, no pension, less days off, more flying hours, one less pilot in the cockpit, and less employee benefits. All the while mainline revenue is up 400%, along with executive pay.