Just so we're clear, these aren't just "my issues." I'm not a new hire, I'm not stuck in a base or category I don't want to be in, I'm not junior at Delta and I'm not junior in my category. I'm simply advocating for those folks because we (Delta and DALPA) can afford to. I understand things are way better for them than they've ever been, but I'll keep reading all the ways that's true if people want to keep listing them. It's interesting history and it's healthy to keep things in perspective. You can call these issues peanuts and they probably are; I have never claimed otherwise. So is the latest LOA in my mind... but I'm happy for the incremental improvement it should bring about.

We could pay for new hire hotels with a reduction in per diem (or reduction in gains there) of about 1 cent per hour. I spend way more than that on coffee for FAs and gate agents, but if that's too rich for some or it's "stealing from senior to give to junior," I guess I'm a socialist.

As far as extraction by the company from 5- or 25-year guys - you're misquoting me repetitively and if you keep doing it you might make me think I said something I didn't. The idea that a 3-year pilot has given more to Delta than a 30-year guy who lost his pension would be asinine and that's probably why you have so much fun attacking it. But that's not what I said.

Should a new hire get profit sharing? There might be some who think not. How about a 2010 hire? Again, some think not. After all,
those profits were made possible by the sacrifices of those who went through BK, and they'll never be made whole, right? In my world view, which I hold simply as my own, I'm glad everyone partakes in PS at an equal percentage of eligible earnings. The newbie flying a thousand of our hours in a year that we generate billions in profits helped produce those very profits... profits that are higher than historic by a factor of 20 or more. How much is attributable to his thousand hours of flying is debatable and frankly unknowable. I'm simply saying improving that new pilot's QOL is as important to me as improving that of the top 10%. There is an expense associated with that, and of course we'd all pay for it. I've also advocated for paying PS at some undetermined level for perhaps 5 years after retirement to ease the blow on retiring dead zoners, and clearly we'd all pay for that too.