Originally Posted by
StoneQOLdCrazy
I'm not sure you have a full grasp of their contract or scope. Or the concept of profit sharing. Or much of anything, really.
Delta mgmt would love to do as you suggest and trade profit sharing for pay rates. That transaction would last one negotiating cycle, and evaporate. Anyway, Ualpa and apa must have thought it was ok, since they matched the dalpa formula.
where do you think you’d be right now without Delta pilots standing firm and raising the bar significantly last year?
But you do you. Sounds like you have all the answers. Good luck.
UAL and AA were forced to match DL rates and didn’t really exceed them. AA matched and UAL barely beat them triggering the me-too. If DL had agreed to 10-15% more, that’s what it would be at the other 2. They settled for less in the best negotiating environment we’ll likely ever see.
it’s a fact that RJ’s and JV’s generate revenue that isn’t shared with those employees. AA’s PS was lower in part because they are forced to share with their WO regionals, while DL doesn’t.
We likely could’ve had higher rates instead of being forced to negotiate off of previously agreed to 737 rates. I know we have the best scope in the industry and will never budge on it. DL does not….WB rates don’t do you much good when you’re not flying the planes. Only thing in the DL contract I wish we had was green slips…other than that, I don’t really care.
You do you though…go hang out in the Widget forum.