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Originally Posted by Eric Stratton
That doesn't appear to be correct at all unless you are looking at what appears to be WB pay. Then it's a little more correct.
BTW Top 3% at 53... not bad.
I can't help it if I'm lucky, it only cost me $1.4 Million in my DB plan and a $100/hr pay cut...
It would be nice if I still had a retirement plan, and I was making $319/hr, instead of less than I was 8 years ago on the 757.
I'm only counting the 16 747's and 18 777's as a comparison to the 55 L10-11's we once had, for "Wide Body" pay purposes.
You can throw in what, another 21 767-400's and 33(?) A330's if you like, they pay a lot less, but throw them in and what do we have today?
A grand total of 88 Wide Bodies. Yipee...
The day before 9/11/2001 Delta had about 10,400 pilots on our seniority list, I think NW had about 7,500 back then (?). Today as a combined airline, we have what, about 11,500 or so. In effect, we have shrunken by an entire airline.
I think we all understand what's been going on here, but to AWM's point, it's not just the bottom 66% that are unhappy about it, and most of the top 33% still have 2-3 contracts to go. He sounds like he's trying to make it a Senior Guys screwing the Junior Gusy thing when it's not. Many of us Senior Dudes voted NO on that last one too, there was nothing in it for us. The pay raises were tiny and there was nothing much to replace our lost DB plans.