Originally Posted by BlueJetDork

The reason is simple.

Management keeps changing the formula.

Up until 2006, the formula was simple.

15% of pre-tax profit divided by company-wide eligible earnings = profit sharing percentage. Basically the standard formula across airlines and other industries.

Then the monkey business started.

It changed to:

15% of pre-tax profit divided by company-wide eligible earnings = profit-sharing percentage - 500 basis points (5% cliff).

Then it changed again:

10% of pre-tax profit divided by company-wide eligible earnings = profit-sharing percentage - 500 basis points (5% cliff).

That is what turned what should have been 8.7% into 0.02%. Not the size of DAL compared to BlueJet or the age difference. Greed and then blame-shifting that the gullible swallow hook line and sinker.

But we have some newbie pointing to the size of DAL as the reason. Talk about mouth wide open and ready for the juice.

Learn your history before dropping your: "if you don't like it leave" BS. It's old and the company is not waiting for the pilot group to smarten up. They have time to wait!!!

Why pilots continually work against themselves and trust those how are not in their ranks is extremely strange. They must screen for that trait.

Drop it!