Originally Posted by Gone Flying

not trying to take sides in this but just for clarification for DL

- on reserve a pilot is “full” and has no further reserve obligation once that pilot has credited over reserve guarantee. So if guarantee is 75 this month once I have 75 hours on my schedule I am done, even if I have more on call days left. We also cannot be assigned more than whatever the ALV is +15 hours. But because of the above rule that is usually less of a factor.

-voluntary airport standby seems like a pretty good deal, 3 hours of pay above guarantee plus 5:15 towards guarantee for 6 hours of sitting in the crew room.

-September was our first month with the 1:1 rig over 10 hours and I noticed a significant improvement in the trips on my plane (757/767) the trips that did not improve now pay significantly more. we have 23 hour 3 day trips (only 15 block) and 30 hour 4 day trips (20 block) in our bid package next month

-did you have a 2 hour minimum day or minimum duty peroid. We had the latter and the min day has been a nice improvement in making trips with 30 hour overnights suck less on the other days.

-18 hour long call has been a huge improvement. We don’t have SC only lines and reserves are limited to 6 SCs a month unless they ask for more, that’s down from 7 in our last contract. So SCs really are not up except in categories that finally have reserves to assign SC to.

- DL has W&B protection on our JS, it’s in our FOM.

-DL also gets 5 hrs pay and credit per day for training starting 1/1/24

- DL already has all premium at 100%, so no change for the holidays (they can do 50% premium for trips in PBS, but after bids are run all premium is double pay)

Originally Posted by joepilot50

Delta’s is a use it or lose it to be fair. It isn’t accrued like UAL’s and AA’s. Matter of one’s view which is preferred.

The pay back is capped at $200,000.

Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

Most pilots at Delta average 100 hours of sick leave per year. You only accrue 60 per year. Yours isn’t superior even if you could sell it at retirement for 100 percent. My understanding is you sell it for a fraction, (25 percent?).

Originally Posted by Varks

Unless you are completely inept at saving for retirement, everyone under age 40 should have at least $15-20 million upon retirement. That is a conservative estimate.

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Unless you are completely inept at saving for retirement, everyone under age 40 should have at least $15-20 million upon retirement. That is a conservative estimate.

Originally Posted by Red Forman

66 percent I think is the magic number.

Originally Posted by AllYourBaseAreB

66% up to 200k. Tax free though to a retirement health account.

I’d much rather have Delta’s system of use or lose it. The ESB can only be used up to 540 hrs in a career. 180 at a time.

Originally Posted by Red Forman

Just correcting that it is not 25% as was posted.