Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
An airline has a certain pot of money it can spend. Do you want them to spend a lot of it to bring those 2000 guys up to DL wages and benefits or to regain some of the huge loses we've taken?
Yes, I would love for Delta to bring all 76-seat flying to mainline and bring however many guys that takes up to DL wages and benefits. Our pilot group would be closer to 14,000 instead of 12,000 and the threat of losing thousands of more mainline jobs to the 76-100 seat market would be gone. The fact that ALPA or the company will not show us a cost/benefit analysis of having that flying at DCI vs. mainline leads me to believe that it might actually SAVE them money to bring the flying to mainline. I think if we had a fleet of 200+ E-175's, E-190's, and E-195's at mainline the savings would outweigh the costs and headaches of having them at DCI and we could use the power of 14,000 of us to use those savings to restore some of what YOU lost. Or we can let DCI have all of them and shrink down to below 10,000 pilots that are getting paid less than guys at JetBlue.