Originally Posted by
tsquare
Sources please. Also how do these numbers break down wrt vacations/PBS efficiencies gained etc etc.... This is important. If you are pulling these numbers out of thin air, you have no credibility. If they are hard facts, there is a ton of ammunition there to negotiate a staggering contract in the coming negotiations. I for one would like to see the comparison.
Pilot cost sources are from talking to the union reps. There is no real secret there on what the contract costs are. Total costs for the company are out of the 10Q reports. Easy to goggle and look them up. Employee expenses are about 30 percent of the cost to run the airline and pilots are 1/3 of those costs. Nothing hard to look up or verify. In fact we will get 1/3 of the profit sharing pool since its based on income. Looks like that is going to be in the 100 to 120 million range depending on the 4th quarter for pilots.
I am not sure what you meant by PBS ect... As I mentioned we are a much larger group with the merger yet pilot costs are not much higher then premerger in 04. That is because of the things you mentioned and hundreds of other concessions.
Edit, From the annual report for 09 (10 not out yet) total expenses for Delta were 28 billion and change.