Originally Posted by
APCLurker
Sorry, healthy as the proverbial horse here. My belly isn't spilling out of my uniform. Not stressed in the least.
Never said you were NW. As far as I am concerned, your group did an even more egregious act with allowing retired pilots to come back to work while guys were on furlough. Congratulations for that one.
And I never used the cobra. I did the right thing and used my significant other's insurance. While watching other furloughs I knew ignore the union request to use other insurance means if able. They had other options available, but used the cobra so that they could get the cheaper cobra rate (in other words free).
And no misery here whatsoever. I actually enjoy seeing people like you expose yourself for who you are. Just like the tanksley group and their ilk. Negotiating capital for COLA for the frozen pensions and pbgc, while at the same time you collect the same DC rate as everybody else........ Please. This is just a further grab like their lawsuit. Like I asked you before: what about those pre 2004 you talked about that have neither frozen nor pbgc? You of course didn't respond to that.
C'mon - lighten up on the young vs old. Buck makes many good points and so do you. How about we agree to disagree.
As far as the PERP program - retired Pilots returning, yeah it sucked but the alternative was worse. So when you have two bad options isn't it better to choose the least bad? DAL had mismanaged its crew resources, as always, and we were between a rock and a hard place - there was no magical "tough guy" solution that we missed.
Like I said I am skeptical on carve out and am amused that Pilots among those making 250K + within 3 years are mocking a 20 year Pilot making 175K who just lost his planned for DB. I am 100% against bringing back the DB but lets not lose the ability to see things from others POV.
And for every Captain making 175K there were 5-15 year FOs making sub 100K (yours truly
) who are rapidly approaching retirement with some already retired.
Scoop