Originally Posted by
Planetrain
My point was a cut as severe as LOA46 with C2015 and 14,500 pilots is much more than $1billion. You conflate a $1B cut 15 years ago with company expense numbers of $20B/yr today. (15 years ago our revenue and cost was less) I’m not disputing your number or where you got it from, only that in today’s market, an LOA 46 type cut will amount to a much bigger number because of pay rates and work rules and number of pilots. Idk what that number is, $2B/yr? Probably still not enough to stop this sinking ship. Moo point.
Wel that $1B you are talking about was for only the Delta pilots of which there were 10,155 when the cuts were made and our pay rates were pretty close to what they are today believe it or not. You would have to also add in what the NWA side of the fence gave as we are a combined airline now.