Originally Posted by
marcal
As of today’s MEC update we’ve crossed 17,000. Unbelievable. Considering what we were potentially looking at when Covid first happened(before Salary guarantees, etc), this is great. Let’s hope the good times keep rolling. On to 20K!
I hate to be Debbie Downer but consider this; the day before 9-11-2001 Delta had 10,400 pilots and NWA had 7,500.
Together that's 17,900 pilots, in 2001! That's 23 years ago! That's NOT "Growth"!
We still have not recovered from 9-11 and the contract concessions we gave up in Bankruptcy.
We gave away scope on both ends, and we gave Korean Airlines the Narita hub, that's why we have less pilots today than in 2001.
We gave management PBS, which allows them to staff the Airline with 20% fewer pilots than the fixed 75hr cap we had before bankruptcy.
We are still being paid 20% less than our wages in 2001 adjusted for inflation.