Originally Posted by
O2pilot
So let me get this straight...in lieu of Delta saving money by having pilots sit at home getting paid 50 hours, they are going to have them sit at home and get paid min guarantee? They do realize that the total pilots costs are going to be lower with SILs and without them will be higher, right? At United we took a bunch of them in April, but in May we took far less. Guys have figured out they can just sit home on reserve and not fly and just make 73 hours each month. I don’t understand Delta not offering SILs.
That is right. No SILs for us. The reason seems to be that Delta thinks it is not fair we get paid 55 hours for a SIL while 32,000 employees get paid $0 on a voluntary leave. They’re afraid of unionization efforts apparently. I think a lot of us would prefer to get paid reserve guarantee at this point also.