Originally Posted by
Tinpusher007
This last bullet point is one of the most telling and an outrage to many.
• While 155,000 jobs were lost and the average revenue per employee increased by over $110,000; general management wages/salaries as reported on DOT41 forms, increased by 44% as it climbed from $243 million to $350 million.
Hmmm...and it's our costs that need to go down?
It sucks when pay doesn't match value but IMHO when you look at management at United, CAL, AA, USdespair, etc, then I am very happy to have our team and whatever they're paid, in fact, i'm fine with whatever pay is necessary to keep them even if it's much higher. From what I know when either RA, or whoever did it, hired some of the good brains from CAL they asked Bethune if DAL could afford to hire them and Bethune bluntly said you can't afford not to. I'm not saying everything will be perfect but I wouldn't want to be anywhere
else.
We as line pilots truly need our management to be the best if we want to be the best airline.