Originally Posted by
TED74
I understand that. But the underlying formula that pilots compare their benefit to, or calculate as lost/stolen was this future snapshot of what they thought they might generate in their final three years (if I’m not mistaken). The “beauty” of the DC system is that it’s a running tally affected every year one works, capturing the ebbs and flows along the way. Less is left to chance, as when so much rode on the last 10-15% of one’s career, a decade or two into the future.
True if everyone was on a DC system from the day they were hired. That’s not true at Delta. In fact the more you increase the DC amount the bigger the disparity in retirement becomes between older and younger pilots unless you heavily target that DC money as was once done as a issue of fairness.