Lets talk “perspective.”

We like to think we are talking apples to apples by comparing us to legacies because we fly the same airplane they do. Then, we boast that our aircraft have more seats than the legacy variant of the Airbus. So, we definitely should be paid the same. Heck… we should get more!!!

Just a quick google reveals Delta moves 200M people annually.

Using numbers here on APC profiles, 737’s and A319’s/320/321’s make up 56% of the Delta fleet.

56% of 200M is 112M people moved annually by Delta narrow body pilots.

Frontier moves 30.2M people annually. That’s just 27% of what Delta does.

NOW, BEFORE ANYONE GOES BALLISTIC ON MY MATH BEING TOO LINEAR. I GET IT, BUT I WASN’T GONNA DIG AROUND TO FIND OUT EXACTLY HOW MANY FLIGHTS ANNUALLY THEIR NB FLEETS MAKE.

The point is: It matters that Delta has far more opportunities (flights per day) to unalive people than F9. They move way more people than we do and they do it in aircraft with less seats than ours.

This is what a bean counter sees when it comes to compensation. Not how many seats on an airplane.