Originally Posted by O2pilot

Delta is mostly a non-unionized airline. They operate in cities where they can pay their employees much less. Their profits come mostly from that, plus they have farmed out the highest paying pilot jobs to international code-share partners.

Anyone who wants Delta’s annual profit just has to do two things. 1) Convince the other employee groups to leave their unions and take paycuts, 2) Park half our widebody fleet, downgrade all those pilots to lower paying positions, and let Lufthansa and the other carriers do all that flying for us.