Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
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.
First of all let me state that I am all for having the 70 and 76 seat flying brought to mainline even if it costs more to do it and I hope it can eventually be done.
But do you really believe what I bolded in your quote? Do you really think the company would pass up a way to save money in this economic evironment? Lastly, if a cost/benefit analysis was done and released that showed it was cheaper to do the flying at DCI, would you believe it or not?
I don't blindly follow the company but I would find it hard to believe they would do this just to spite the pilots. I think their motivation is strictly money (for themselves and the stock holders, in that order).
Denny