Originally Posted by
Stratoliner
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In every industry under the sun, people move for a job. People pack up the Subaru and drive across the country for a few grand a year, for a good opportunity. This is what normal people do in every single industry.
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If half the pilots commute, that's an extra $10k to them per year because of their own lifestyle choice. While DL is doing very well financially right now, at American that number represents 15% of their 2024 net income. Is that really a reasonable demand for what the shareholder would fairly consider an unreasonable lifestyle choice?
“Normal people” work in one city. I don’t work in my base. It’s simply a city where I start / end most, but not all, of my trips. If a trip starts or ends with a DH, then I don’t even see my base. On average, I spend about one night per month there.
$91 million in added value is quite reasonable and is well below the cost of many other QOL items we’ve added in recent years.
The 23M7 / auto-accept debacle alone costs the company more, and comes with a rising price tag as the 23M7 enforcement rate increases. When the time is right, that can be leveraged into something of significant value to the pilot group.