Originally Posted by
Michael70776
Changing the pay system will not change the amount of money Delta can spend on the pilots. The amount spent on the pilot contract will be the same no matter what pay system we have. So how are you going to swith to longevity pay without screwing some pilots while rewarding others?
Add to that, the current system is in the best interest of most pilots. Pick what is important to you....chase quality of life or chase the money.
... and I get dragged right back in...
The way I would implement a longevity system would be to take the lowest paid captain DC9 at 12 year.. and find an acceptable raise from that point. That becomes year 1 of the longevity scale. Every year after that is a (3%) raise until year 40. How would anybody get "screwed" there?
OK.. why do we need make a choice about choosing money or QOL. That is defeatist. You essentially are saying that we cannot have both, so we have to make a choice. Really? I don't buy that because there are no more benefits of real consequence so the remaining two have to be paired against each other? Like I have said, I know I am tilting at windmills because there won't be any original thinking on how this is all done. $500 for the whale.. they deserve it!
Can't never could do anything...