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Old 03-25-2019, 08:52 AM
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Ray Red
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Originally Posted by gzsg View Post
The Retirement and Insurance working group has done some incredible work in preparation for C2019. Reaching out to other pilot groups and financial industry experts. When the opener is released to the pilot group on April 5th, I believe all our pilots will be very pleased.

Retirement is sorely lacking for all the Delta pilots and we will make major gains in C2019.
You are smoking some good stuff if you think specific opening positions will be released to the pilot group. It will be written in generalities like "much improved pay, retirement, and work rules". They will not say we opened with a 20% pay increase.

How can you say retirement is sorely lacking for all Delta pilots? Even with no improvement to the DC, we (and many other airline pilots) have a retirement program that most people would not believe. If you are approaching retirement then you will be sorely disappointed that you will not be getting a 60% FAE. It's just not going to happen. To provide near term retirees with a 60% FAE would take too much of the contract money pie at the direct expense of us newer guys. Junior pilots and even mid seniority pilots are not onboard with an attempted money grab.
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