Couldn't his diatribe also be considered long winded internet bloviation as so eloquently previously described by himself? ;)

It's at the least long winded, and there is some serious self love in there!

Is self love wrong? If it is, I don't want to be right.

Just saw Profit Sharing Check in the bank. Great, but Obama took 25% for Income tax, 6% Soc Sec, 2% Medicare, and ALPA took 2%....Guess what? That equals 35%.... Back to the coal mine.

The only measure of productivity between pilot groups is block hours flown per pilot. Aircraft usage goes up and down with the economy, marketing and type of operation. Usage varies quite a bit at Delta even among narrow body fleets. At the moment as a example we have a surplus of MD88/90 airframes and could fly them more if marketing decides the economy is improving by adding pilots. We needed as many as 35 pilots for each 777 but that is because of high daily hours flown and the need for 3 and 4 man crews.

Our 88/90 fleet is being way underutilized so your numbers don't have any meaning. The number used to measure productivity that is valid is block hours flown per pilot.
2011 numbers
SWA 62.1
DAL 42.9

Those numbers are being skewed some because Delta was carrying a greater surplus of pilots then SWA however we are no where near their level of productivity. 2012 numbers are not out yet.

The apples to apples measurement is block hours flown per pilot. Unless you know the average daily usage of each fleet comparing hulls to pilots is meaningless. The comparison posted also uses the total number of SW pilots including management, training, mil leave, personal leave, long term sick verses the exact manning numbers at Delta on the 88/90 excluding the above pilots. To get a actual comparison you have to add all those pilots back into the Delta numbers.

How else will us working people pay for Obamacare if not highly taxed? As I said last year, wait until this country sees welfare recipients triple with the new 29 hour requirement over 40. Its coming my friend and the damn working man beware.

I know your a smart guy from your posts so I can only conclude your are trying to mislead readers with your post. You are fully aware your using the total number of SW pilots verses a snapshot of one fleet at Delta that excludes a large number of pilots your including at SW. This includes management pilots, personal leave pilots, mil leave pilots, long term sick pilots, training pilots ect....

It was intentionally misleading. It used small nuggets of data broken out in individual sections to portray the TA favorably to other contracts. To say our vacation, for example, is even in the same ball park as SWA or FDX is just not true. Then, the overall wrap up for compensation was absent as well. I'll repost the AirTran welcome packet link. Every SWA pilot here has stated that this is truth data. So if you are so proud of the transparent presentation of the data in the 2012 contract comparison, why is there such a disparity? Try not to take this personally, I just wish people didn't have to do their own research because our union was providing FULL truth data. Scambo makes 30% less flying the 777 than his peer SWA buddy. That is a fact. It would be nice if ALPA would at least acknowledge that. They lose credibility, at least with me, when they don't. I am not as upset about making less than I am about being told that I actually am.

http://library.constantcontact.com/d...me-Booklet.pdf

We have 1095 pilots out on MIL, FUR, SUP, INS, SIC, etc, or about 10% of the group. 10% of 6400 pilots is 640. I can run the numbers on that is 5.1 crews for them vs 4.8 for us once we get the rest of these 90s and before we cut pilots out of the category.