Originally Posted by
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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.
You make very valid points. And the current management team at DL does seem to be making the right decisions which place Delta in a better position than it's peers which trickles down to you and I theoretically (well, probably you, more than I).
However, I would agree 100% with you IF everything that managers, past and present did, namely cutting our compensation while increasing their own as well as forcing each employee to do more with less resulted in profits. But as the article points out, thats not the case. The red ink is still flowing. I do realize there are outside forces at hand that make profits extremely difficult in our business. But many employees have simply been lied too..."shared sacrifices, shared rewards" "if you don't take x amount reduction in pay, this company won't survive" etc.
I do believe the airlines collectively have lost much more money than they made prior to 9/11. That, too me does not justify bonuses of any sort, let alone increasing said bonses year over year. If it was necessary to pay out that kind of money in bonses to retain "top talent" than we should be seeing profits, Im sorry! If they are only employed for bonuses, than every word they speak of about commitment and great employees and how they care about customers is BS and they shouldn't be working at an airline. Imagine the body count if you or I took the same approach to our jobs.
Ok, comin off the soapbox now...and Im not attacking you at all...just had to get that off my chest. I hope RA and the gang earn it...they seem to be close to or on the right track now, depending on who you talk to. Good luck to us all.