Oh, so you're saying we got a 2% pay raise in 2011 and 2012? Great, I forgot to add that to my pay rates from those years, I'll have go back and add that in. :rolleyes:

My point is, that the 2% was a tax holiday for those two years, not an decrease in our payrates as of 1/1/13.

Your welcome. They are the best I have found.

It's a one way street with me, the lower rate is the way it should be.

http://www.csicon.net/wp-content/upl...34ba7e7b33.jpg

It's in reference to the F keys across the top of your computer keyboard, but the button on the screen will work as well.

Woops, don't forget to back out inflation.

2/4/-1/-1

But at least you'll be paying less taxes on your profit sharing check.

I think I know what you are saying...Something to the effect of DALs strong YOY financials tower over UAL/AA. The Unical contract (roughly) matches DAL's. AA's not so much, but with the merger, they will get an opportunity to renegotiate. And you are happy to be at a financially strongish (based on profit) company. Therefore, you are happy with Mgmt's "vector."

You also wonder, just for the sake of arguement, how Unical and USAA are going to cover their contractual increases without the benefit of vastly higher profits. Because US profit, while good, has an extremely cheap pilot contract and AA isn't kicking butt either with a currently cheap contract.

IMO, from a macro view I agree with your observation. But, also there are too many moving pieces both in play and yet to be seen that makes it way too difficult to compare us to them until the dust settles a lot.

Check;

I thought you were a lawyer, not a psychologist. My observation both at DAL and in the reserves was that the rank and responsibility an officer left active duty with is/was where he was frozen...mentally, emotionally, responsibility-wise, reasoning-wise, etc. Its a bit of a broad brush, but usually you could count on it being true.

IOW, I agree with your assesment.

Fiigmo, I smell what you're stepping in. Delta management seems to be making good choices (for now), and Delta seems like a great place to be (for now).

But it also strikes me as dangerously complacent. I don't think we should be satisfied with where we at from a compensation standpoint. When the company's raking in record profits, we should need to maximize our gains, too.

Let's not focus on our competitors' issues. Let's work on adjusting our own expectations upward. We are a huge part of the company's financial success. We need to recognize that and be a little more militant about it.

Unless you ask my wife. She thinks I'm frozen at age 12.

So here's a Kate Upton pic:

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Sort of an in-service Peter Principle?