Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Sorry, I’ve gotta throw the BS flag on this argument.
Drawing an equivalence between UNA/WARN notice pilots potentially having NO job at all to DZ’ers having a little less in retirement is absurd.
I don’t blame you for wanting MB. Truly. But you can’t blame the vast majority of the list balking at “taking care” of a small remainder of pilots 17 years later who had 5 extra years of peak-earning work. Especially when the pilots who retired 1 day short get nothing.
It’s not going to happen. The votes walked out the door with the VEOP. And we are adding 200 post-probationary pilots a month who as (mostly) don’t want it.
I agree with most of your post but you are incorrect one issue. Many of the guys approaching retirement now, say 60+, spent an additional 5 years as a gear yanking FO.
You are extrapolating today's quick upgrades back into the past. Back then it took many 17-20 years to upgrade, thus we are now entering a period in which some retirees spent the extra five years on the right side of the cockpit.
Again I repeat why all the angst on this issue? DAL Pilots voted not to fight the pension termination when 100% of Delta Pilots had a pension. If you think a provision that benefits a very small minority of the Pilot group at the expense of the majority will pass MEMRAT think again.
That said I don't think it helps when younger Pilots portray older Pilots as some monocled version of a cross between Thurston Howell the 3rd and the Monopoly game Banker, just as it doesn't help when older Pilots disparage younger Pilots as selfish millennials.
Scoop