Originally Posted by
TED74
You really want to talk about other airlines, and total widebody count? Delta has plenty of strengths... total widebody hulls doesn't seem to be one of them (nor percentage of pilots earning top rate).
I don't disagree with the total wide body positions, but basing it on a percentage of pilots at the top pay rate doesn't make a good case.
We could start parking NBs tomorrow and our percentage would go up. We could continue to take flying away from the regionals and the percentage making top rate would go down. UAL could shrink their NB fleet increasing their percentage. None one of those scenarios would really explain what we are doing in the widebody arena.