Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
Don't forget our scope too. Every SWA passenger is flown by a pilot on SWA seniority list. No SWA Express or LUV Connection. You mentioned reserve. I think Delta's reserve is better than ours, but ours is better than United's - hands down.
Originally Posted by
flyguy81
Medical/dental insurance is better than pretty much anyone in the industry. Ask how much the monthly premiums for lowest deductible plan for a family is over at Delta…I’ll wait.
Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
To be fair, our sick accrual is excellent, too. I think only FedEx has better.
Originally Posted by
Prospect
WN has many things in our contract that are better QOL wise than anyone else, DL included.
I agree that scope is industry leading too. Sorry. A little sleep deprived.
While our reserve is better than United though, it is not "better... than anyone else", which was the original bar prospect made in the quote above. (Ironically, because Delta's is definitely better.
A lot of people bring up our sick accrual, which I considered bringing up in my original post, but decided against it because our sick accrual is not actually fully sick accrual. The company considers it to be partially for disability and loss of license, hence why they're trying to gut it to give us LTD/STD/LOL.
I disagree with the company's assertion, but in the end it's irrelevant. Our sick accrual is fine, but because there are plenty of ways that you can get sick here that result in you quite literally being left to die by the company, our health coverage sucks.
In other words, it would be like saying we have industry leading dental because pulling teeth is completely free, while having no other dental coverage at all. That's great and all, but I would violently hate any dental insurance that only covered that one item, no matter how well it covers it.
Which leads to dental/vision/medical coverage that some brought up. Again, that's all well and good, the regular plan especially, but given that you lose ALL of it in the event that you actually get sick, it completely obliterates the benefit of it.
Our health coverage sucks. Period. That we have some nice items does not negate the fact that the whole system is trash.