Originally Posted by
joel payne
Northwest pilots would get about a 30 percent pay raise, while Delta's higher-paid pilots would get a modest pay hike, said one person briefed by people with knowledge of the deal.
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Pilots union negotiators at Delta and Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest have worked out most terms of a pact that would allow them to get about a 7 percent equity stake in the combined companies, according to a senior Delta pilot and other people briefed on the pilot union negotiations.
I just hope the merger is not put in jeopardy by the pilots union. They would be turning down a huge opportunity.