Originally Posted by
TED74
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.
Alpa is an association. You have a vote. So do I. There’s also a good number of us interested in not giving up pay via a lower ALV. I agree w/ you that plenty of “folks” don’t need more money to be happier... while I’m sure you were not specifically referring to me or preaching to me, I’ll point out that I was furloughed for 5+ years and have two in high school. College soon. It appears from your post you are younger and junior to me. You have a better future ahead of you, seniority wise than I do and will benefit from the contract we worked on before you arrived. So don’t worry, it’ll come. In the meantime enjoy the ride.
PS-Good luck trying to get Delta, now or ever, to agree to a permanent lower ALV. That means more pilots. It’ll never happen. Be realistic and if you ever get to the MEC realize that to negotiate for impossible wants is a waste of time.