Originally Posted by
PilotJ3
Those about to time out are the minority at this point. They had their chance in 2012, 2014, 2019 contracts.
Nothing against them, just pointing out the reality. QOL means more time off for the same amount of money. If you want more money, you can always pick a WS/GS/SS.
20 days off a month with Soft pay and QOL means you can pick a 1-2 day GS and get more money and still have more than 1/2 of the month off. It’s just a different approach on “Pay me more, I’ll make my QOL”.
If QOL is important the most significant single change you can do would be to make training and vacations pay and credit. This was virtually 100% rejected by the bottom not top of the seniority list. When I have posted it on here it’s rejected by most.
The QOL improvements from the Chapter 11 contract through contract 2019 were in fact huge. The reserve system changes alone were simply massive. I do grant that some of that was FAR117. I remember many *****ing that the 2012 contract was all about QOL and there was not enough money.
One of the ways to attempt to measure QOL is block hours flown per pilot. During what some perceive as the Golden years Delta averaged about 40 block hours per pilot. Post bankruptcy contract changes that number reached 52 block hours per pilot. That was an astounding change and allowed Delta to operate with 20% plus fewer pilots. Post contract 2016 prior to covid we were back down to around 40.