Originally Posted by
Tailhookah
The ALV dilemma has many sides and I get where some of you say lower ALV’s lead to a better QOL. Only if our base pay was higher, ALV would have to be raised by as much to offset. Because a lower ALV w/ more green slips is not an improvement of QOL and actually a big hit to QOL.
Are you already in the top-paying category you expect to stabilize in for a while? I'm not. ALV reduction, leading to the same wide body flying spread over more pilots, will accelerate my movement into higher paying (and for my circumstances, better qol) WBB and NBA jobs.
Believe it or not, plenty of folks don't need more money to be happier or gain "quality of life." As evidenced by hundreds of pilots taking a significant pay cut to shed obligations at work, there's a good number of us interested in a lower floor of hourly obligation to Delta. Clearly that isn't the case for everyone... and they can WS/swap/max credit themselves up to work more even with a reduced ALV.