Originally Posted by
Tailhookah
One other equalizer on our contract vs. United and AA is that Delta operates w/ 2 Captains on 4 man crews…. United does not and I think AA (help on this one) does not either. They operate w/ 1 Captain and 3 FO’s. So the 4 man crews essentially doubles the high paying potential of the Delta fleet.
Regarding the 2 Capt vs 1 Capt long haul point, hypothetically, lets say DL has all their 350's and UAL has all their 777/787/400 airborne at the same time, and lets say every DL 350 is flying > 12 hours requiring double Capts and every United 777/787/400 was flying < 13 hours only requiring a single Capt.
Delta would have 34 Capts on those 17 aircraft making top pay.
United would have 175 Capts on 175 aircraft making top pay.
34 vs 175....Not even close to being an "equilizer"
Even when we have the 44 x A-350's that we are currently forecast to have...that would still be 88 DL Capts to 175 UAL Capts, so about half.