Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Reportedly, Ed was a hard NO on FC DH last time around. We can never know what’s really true, but Ed values his precious revenue premium too much to let us DH in FC all the time.
Revenue premium is important to me as well, as it factors into our profit sharing.
From AverageGPA:
One of United’s biggest perks is they get 150% pay for any leg occupying a middle seat on a deadhead.
That seems like an easy ask and should have been done long ago.
How do you know that it wasn't 'done a long time ago'? (Answer: You don't) Misinformation. It is indeed easy to
ask and a much higher bar to actually
achieve, requiring both parties to agree.
Page 57 of the contract comparison addresses deadhead, and I would argue that our ocean deadheading is much better than UAL or AAL. There is no 'if available' in our ocean deadhead language. They will bump revenue or pilots don't have to board. In a same scenario, it is likely that UAL and AAL pilots will be farther back in the airplane.
As for domestic, UAL 'domestic'
does contain the language 'if able'. The so a large part of UAL pilots getting first class on non-oceanic deadheads lies in the way they operate their airline versus how we operate ours. Regardless, I will yield that UAL pilots sit in first class on non-oceanic more than our pilots do.
Where does this issues fall in the priority of Delta pilots over others?
What about insurance?
What about vacation, in which our value in the industry is 4th?
How about short call pay?
Night pay? - we are not industry leading
Per Diem? - we are not industry leading
International pay? - we are not industry leading
Holiday pay qualifying days? - we are not industry leading
Door pay?
Insurance?
Distributed training pay less than the value of the time it takes to do it?
I see a lot of consternation about deadhead on this thread, but frankly I can find a lot better improvements to speak about. thank goodness there is polling data for the Delta MEC to refer