Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Three Answers, to the extent of available public data:
(1) Pretty close to 85 (extrapolated from Contract Awareness Bulletin 15-07) However, be aware that the contract still requires 48.5% or an international widebody block hour floor also kicks in.
(2) Makes sense, but that is not how the data shakes out. Some of these numbers are posted in the Scope Compliance & Analysis reports. On the trans-Atlantic markets the passenger mix DL/partner is pretty close to an even 50/50. On other markets, like South America, the mix from airlines like GOL (who does not serve the same markets Delta does) is something like 10/1 in favor of Delta. (SC&A reports)
(3) We do not have the data for the exact metric measured, "global widebody block hours + trans-Atlantic 757" but total international block hours in 2014 was 662,403 (SC&A reports)
So, while we are growing as an airline with thousands more pilots, our 'protection' will be that we will fly at least 650,000 international hours. Which, is less than we flew in 2014? Meanwhile, how big was the increase in domestic hours? They disregard the contractual obligations to us and then tell us it is no big deal because we are still flying almost as many hours as we did before. No growth. No protected jobs.
This is bad for us. Very bad. I don't understand why they are spinning it as a protection or positive thing. I guess we are all just too dumb to understand how scope concessions hurt us.