Sparse
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When I was flying in the military I didn't know what the hell was going on in the airlines either.:beer:
Thanks to the spineless members of the Delta MEC, the NWA pilots will be the only Delta pilots to have a defined benefit retirement plan in place. I hate to say it but the Delta pilots will get what they negotiate for, and based on the outcome of the past few years, they will get little.
tell us how he got it wrong?
How about DAL merge with Skywest: Are you in favor of relative seniority?
A thousand?!?!?!??? Really???. Wow. You MUST have seen a different TA comparison than I did a couple of years ago....I can point to probably about a thousand places that the NWA pilots would have to be brought up to par with the Delta pilots with regard to the rest of the contract other than retirement.
NWA on the other hand have lots of pilots 55 and over who will retire short term due to the age 60 pension surviving the BK.
This combination skews relative seniority between the 2 carriers when put in the context of career expections. To balance this, maybe the snapshot should be taken 13 years into the future when DAL retirements catch up with NWA retirements as a percentage of their individual lists.
That's great. You have a lot of old planes, and krappy bases. Where do you think our new 777LRs will be going as we get them? We get 6 new ones within 3 months later this year. We will overfly NRT and go nonstop, probably from LAX and ATL. I have a feeling our .2% will rise a bit, eh? But according to you, DL will be empty because NWA is so well known and really the "home town favorite" in Japan, at least according to your NRT gate agents.......whatever...
Bye Bye--General Lee
Moak pounds his chest in public, and in letters from the chief, how powerful he/DALPA is, but what if he's getting it wrong behind closed doors? Everyone there giving him carte blanche? If DAL/NW falls apart because of too much Moak, then what? Who loses in the end.
I have our MEC T.A. comparison and the National ALPA NWA/DAL Merger Analysis. Contracts are still very close. Pay at NWA maybe 8-10% lower but a frozen pension because of that. NWA has much better sick leave and Disability Retirement. Over the last 20 years the contracts are so similar. Had it not been for the NWA '98 strike, UAL and DAL wouldn't have had the opportunity to get the big raises they did. I showed the documents to a couple local DAL guys and they seemed surprised at all the info I had. And was my experience in the Reserves with all the airline guys, the DAL guys were usually the least knowledgeable on industry comparisons or less informed from their MEC.I can point to probably about a thousand places that the NWA pilots would have to be brought up to par with the Delta pilots with regard to the rest of the contract other than retirement.