Originally Posted by
JamesBond
I did the math on all of this right after the merger. If I could find the paper I would post it.... on second though probably not. I have tired of getting shouted down by the "Everyone will get 777 pay" crowd (Or actually by the "777s will then pay RJ pay).... GARBAGE... so I gave up. Now it is more amusement that I see whining about how we only have 1/3 the Super Premium widebody flying that UAL and AAL have and there is zero attempt to rectify the difference or find a different way to skin the cat.
Let's just make sure the few that are lucky enough to be in the bigger categories get paid the most, because they generate the most money for the company. (that one always cracks me up) Awesome.
The window on all of this will start to close at some point in the not too distant future, and if we do nothing to fix it on this contract, hiring/retiring will slow, and any modification will be more difficult, and -dare I say- painful.
/rant
When people talk about "airframes" and not CA positions when referencing CA paid widebodies I stop paying attention because it means they don't actually have any clue to how we are paid an how they are.
Since UAL and AA gave up a lot of their widebody CA positions we have a significant number more CAs per airframe than they do. When you start factoring in how profitable DAL has been and our profit sharing as well as some of our work rule advantages the disparities between our lower paid widebodies and theirs are not as significant.