This is all about optics and always has been. No pilot should care about the optics to other employee groups. They’ve placated the other groups anyway by offering 65-hour SILs if they “self-identify” as wanting one.

AA has set the industry standard for achieving cost savings right now. Delta management is failing at this miserably and will continue to do so as long as it obsesses over anti-union optics and reduced ALVs.