Originally Posted by tennisguru

Just because you are well compensated and not completely beaten down doesn’t mean you are highly respected and valued. The “Delta Family” is a pretty facade but the real interior becomes more apparent the longer you’re here. There is a general disdain for pilots that permeates the company and upper leadership. They put up with us because we are needed to move airplanes. We are viewed as a cost item to be maintained rather than true partners in the success of the company, regardless of what platitudes are splattered on deltanet and company memos. When push comes to shove you need to be looking out for yourself and your family because the company won’t. Everything you are now enjoying, from the pay rates to the soft pay to scheduling rules, etc have been hard fought gains through numerous contract cycles. The company would take everything away they could if given the chance, and in many instances already is trying. Just look at how they have been attacking PB days. Look at how little effort they are putting into crew meals. They ask us to go above and beyond every day at work but getting them to go one step beyond what the PWA requires is a nearly impossible task. CPOs are supposed to be our advocates yet they are completely neutered in any dealings with other departments at the company.

What can you do? Stand in unity with whatever the union asks us to do. Value yourself and the contributions you provide to the company. Don’t settle for less just because things are pretty good now. Push forward so things are even better for yourself and the next generation of Delta pilots.