Delta pilots accept 15 percent pay cut

[Caveman]

"If you do the math if $325mil is 19% of the pay, the total pay is $1.7 billion, so a 14% pay cut would be roughly $240mil."

Makes sense to me. I just repeated what I heard on the news this morning.

 

[michael707767]

"If you do the math if $325mil is 19% of the pay, the total pay is $1.7 billion, so a 14% pay cut would be roughly $240mil."
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total pay is down to about 1 billion, not 1.7.

 

[Caveman]

It wasn't my quote, but thanks for the correction. So the $152 million number does make sense. It's about 14% of roughly a billion dollars in current payroll.

 

[michael707767]

It wasn't my quote, but thanks for the correction.

my bad. Didn't mean to imply it was your quote, just grabbed the quote from the last post in the thread. Can ya ever forgive me

 

[YourPilotFriend]

It's also interesting to note that the labor costs at Delta are now lower than that at SWA and NWA is slated to go even lower. SWA pilots have already agreed to work more hours and with fuel hedges exhausting.....can you say pay cuts.

 

[Falcon Jet 1]

If you look strictly at pay rates and make your assumption that costs will now be lower at delta than swa your an idiot. there is the other little thing that is figured in to the equation called productivity.

 

[rjcap]

You can cut wages at mainline all you want. It won't make any difference. Delta is a broken ailrine with a broken business model. Thats why all this is total B.S. and why it is imperitive that the pilots get a set of balls and vote this down. Mgmgt is merely cutting costs anywhere it can to dress this ugly pig up for sale or merger. Cutting pilot wages and QOL should not be part of the plan. They have been cut enough !

Good luck to you guys. You had better grow a pair.

 

[Archie Bunker]

It is absolutely a done deal. ALPA is ready to immediately petition the court to suspend the current hearing on tossing the contract. If the pilots reject the agreement after the judge suspends the breach the end result will make this agreement look gilded.

Wrong. It's not a done deal until the pilots vote on it. We'll know by Dec 28th. If the TA is voted down, we're right back in 1113 BK Court in the first week of January.

The fact is, nobody knows what this judge will do. If you've read the court transcripts, Judge Prudence has hammered the Delta company attorneys pretty hard during testimony. She is a wild card that is unpredictable at best. How do you know what she'll decide?