Originally Posted by
El Peso
Are you absolutely 100% sure about this? Everything I see, including from the unions, is “A four year deal worth 7/8 billion”. I interpret that to mean exactly that. Not a 7/8 billion raise.
By this logic the pilot payroll alone over the next 4 years will account for about $12-14B. That doesn’t really make sense to me. Serious question.
I understand it's a serious question. The unions do a horrible job too in parsing their words. Almost like they are intentionally obfuscating.
I firmly believe 50% of the pilots don't understand so when it comes to comparisons some only look at the big number 7B vs 8B...therefore AA must be better. Not necessarily true if it is incremental gains. If one contract (UAL for example) is woefully inferior on QOL they might have to make 9B "contract" just to get to where Delta/AA are overall