Late to the party as usual. I would be remissed if I did not weigh in
Pay
It is a question that keeps coming back like a boomerang. Roughly every three months like clockwork some SPoster will come to the F9 forum and "ask" why we should be paid more then we are ,or the same as anyone else (never happens on the Allegant forum for some reason). Always with the assertion that we should be paid less. This is not acoincidence. It is to sow FUD. Some one belives they can brow beat our pilots playing on an inferiority complex to accept less, to work for less. I find the Idea more insulting then the words. The concept makes me angry. That some JA can come on to our board and casually make implications that we should be paid less based on his limited experance. All to make the stock go up a few points.
I won't make any guesses who this person is, Though I doubt he works at Delta or for any airline. Expect some other JA to pop up in the next few weeks to "ask' a simmiler question.
The answer is always the same.
People are not paid what they are worth. A Doctor and a Real Estate can earn the same. Is a Doctor who workes an an ER saving lives every day worth the same as a Real Estate agent who drive around showing people houses? No
People get paid what they accept. Delta pilots get paid more because they refuse to accept less. How much is Biffle getting paid? Soulden't he be getting paid less ? Especially now that the ULCC,Dayturns and Denver gates are not showing to be as profitable as they were preposed. Should the Frontier pilots Finance more bad managment, poor route structure, terrible trips and out door gates with our low wages?
We will end up getting paid what we accept. Question ANYONE who "asks questions " about why we should be paid more. Likely that person has no business asking these questions, or ulterior motives for doing so.
Chris Voss Never Split the difference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnn...LVyPQQ8EOamZ64