Sorry I didn't respond to your post before you posted it, next time I will read your mind. I think it is a little funny that when management sends stuff like this about pilots out in the media you scream about what jerks they are and how distorted their numbers are. I haven't seen the origin of those numbers, but I believe they include all benefits including medical and retirement. Again, when management does this you will scream bloody murder, funny how the tune changes when you are management.

The question is how much will DPA pay to replace these functions on a pay as you go basis. Why don't you ask your merger committee how much they paid for experts and lawyers during the 5 months of the SLI process. I believe that between the two it was over $600,000 per month. You can hire expert help on a pay as you go basis or you can hire them full time. Hiring them full time and spreading their work out over multiple carriers is probably 1/4 of the cost as pay as you go.

But you can keep bashing the salaries of the people that work for you. I am sure that maybe you can get a job in corporate communications the next time contract talks come around. You tell everyone how a 747 Captain makes over $250,000 a year (pay and benefits) and only works 80 hours a month. Gets free meals on board the aircraft and even gets to sleep going over to Japan. What a bunch of overpaid jet jockeys. That should get you started.