I’ll take the 2nd one every time because QOL and family matter.

 

See above, generally they are undermanned for doing trip coverage 2 days out now. As stated above, in most categories there is premium galore to be had, but that leads to a helter/skelter operation.

 

Clanging VPs won’t help. They all answer to Ed, who hates pilots and makes poor decisions rooted in that hatred. He refuses to acknowledge the power we have collectively, and always has. It bit him bigly during our last contract negotiations, when some of his comments on cable news (lies about our ability to strike) effectively cost the company half a billion dollars and put this current lucrative contract into play. He HAD to sign the deal we got…and it was even more valuable than the JV negotiators working for him thought it was.

Delta needs to buy a coverage ladder that can actually cover trips while we wait patiently to become properly manned in the 18 months ahead. In the mean time, they can make trip coverage functional by returning to historic PB day handling, returning to historic reserve pilot rest assignment, and finally raising pilot pay high enough that we’ll ratify a quick contract that lets them shuffle OOBWS and tinker with auto-acknowledge.

With those three pillars, Delta can still salvage summer 2026. Without them, we will sadly watch this Gummster fire burn, watch our NPS plummet, watch consumers shift away from Skymiles-generating credit cards. Our ability to generate significant revenue premium will evaporate precipitously, and a whole new generation of disgruntled, exploited and otherwise demotivated pilots will fill Delta cockpits and mentor thousands of new hires into belligerent curmudgeons.

At least that’s what I think I see from the cheap seats.

 

Replace financial engineering VPs with operational experts who understand finance. RA understood the operation drove the financial results. Current management took the operation for granted while extracting every penny out of it. They didn't understand how to maintain the operation. We lost operational focus and it shows in our performance.

 

Not true. As always it’s BES dependent. My best ever rolling thunder month with 6 GS was under RA’s tenure.

 

Ehh my QOL has been better since we've been understaffed, because I can bid reserve and basically choose which days I want to fly GS/QS on. And easily control my days off with PB days.

 

I can no longer hold weekends off on reserve, I can only hold them off as a line holder...

 

I can't either but I do a GS/QS during the week and boom..weekend off!

 

Hmm...smart. I'm afraid to try this.

 

Who? Former LAX CP?