Possible answers to Delta Rumors

[Skyrtr]

P38

The senior guys paid their dues and have a right to look after themselves and their families and their next 25 years as an old, unemployed person. They worked for Delta a good long time and kept up their end of the bargain, so management should keep their end. Maybe the bargain was skewed a bit when it was written, or doesn't feel competitive in our new environment. That's not the point. It is what was agreed to. I would get out too if I had the risk of losing it all, and so would everyone reading this board...

 

[Vikedog64]

Thats nice when nothing else is wrong with your company, but for Delta to spend money on interiors is mind boggeling in todays market place. Consumers today want to be treated well, and pay a low price, not sit in a pretty seat. If you are tyring to tweak your product great, spend money on interiors, but on the verge of chap 11....give me a break.

Full of luv is correct. Most of the interior work is budgeted.. all DAL is doing is changing colors. Even though things are tight right now, we cannot quit investing in our infastructure, including our A/C or terminals.

 

[Vikedog64]

A reasonable ammount, that's how many. Sorry, but 8 planes doesn't warrant 1500 pilots just to further pad the "touch it and bail" upper crust.

My point is the whole retirement scheme is unsustainable as it stands now. I would blend the pay categories for all widebodies so you wouldn't have this mess to begin with. Remember the DALPA/management spat over the 777 in the first place? Well management caved and got the plane and gave DALPA their rates, and now instead of serving to generate revenue in certain markets, the plane primarily is used to artificialy inflate the earnings of those just about to punch out.

That's what I'm talking about. 280/hr is cool, as long as you work your @ss off and don't shaft the company with asinine schemes like that. The guys with the 3 years are holding a winning lottery ticket saying see ya suckaz!, while the bulk of the group is holding a flaming bag of doggie doo.

Kinda reminds me of management's little "I got mine" parachute. Now you're saying they might have to put those pilots retirements into some kind of bankruptsy proof retirement scheme, just like management, just to avoid a mass grounding of the intl fleet. How is it we got to this point to begin with? Its got to change and change now.

Management and pilots are really no different. Both take the money and run..