Originally Posted by NWA320pilot

Have to disagree here....... DAL can afford to increase our pay rates to pre BK rates and even adjust for inflation. I did the math a few years ago but the gist of it was they would need to increase ticket prices by about $1.60 an hour of flight per pax on a fully loaded aircraft. So based on this a 5 hour coast to coast would need an increase of about $8 per ticket to cover the increase, not too much in my opinion.