Originally Posted by
slowplay
So if the company can "easily" afford this by a fare increase of just a few dollars a ticket, why aren't they doing that now?
Easy. They're not doing it now because management wants to "save" any fare increases for items THEY believe in. Every time they contemplate a fare increase, they make a business case to themselves as to why the attempt should be made. There is no desire on their part to make pilot pay a worthwhile effort because they know the have ALPA/DALPA on their side. ALPA/DALPA does not want C2K restoration any more than management does. That's the sick part of this.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
Because they can't individually increase fares without industry participation and you know it.
You are purposely stating falsehoods...and you know it. Delta STARTED a number of the fare hikes in the hopes the rest of the industry would participate. Sometimes the industry did, and sometimes the industry didn't. But at no time did the industry know WHY Delta wanted to institute the fare increase. The bottom line is that our management does NOT WANT to institute a fare increase to fund more pilot pay...and neither does our own union.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
We've been fortunate this year that most of Delta's competitors have matched our fare increases
Is that because our competitors were sure that the fare increase wasn't being instituted to increase pilot pay?
Carl