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Old 10-07-2022, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
In 2007 Delta’s cost per block hour for pilots was 470.00. In 2019 it was 1239.00. The 2019 cost was probably the highest pilot block hour cost at any airline world wide and did not include profit sharing which would have elevated us even higher. That’s the value of knocking out timely contracts that compound. You also have to understand the RLA and how it functions. It flat out blocks grand slams.
As to your assertion that other parts of the contract have been neglected the DC plan went from 9 to 16%. Sick leave went from 65 hours to 270. Reroute pay improved dramatically. Greenslips went from 150 to 200%. Restrictions on greenslips in months with training or vacation were removed. Reserve duty rigs were improved to match line holders. Reserve pay was increased from a flat 70 hours to a average of 76. We retained the best crew augmentation policies world wide while almost everyone else caved. We improved disability from 40 hours a month pay to 50%FAE including profit sharing and made it fully pensionable. We increased min layover times substantially. We added more reserve days off and obtained early release options. We added a average daily guarantee. We improved on duty guarantees after midnight. We added time limits for return to base on reroutes. We added a enhanced disability account. We increased vacation and training pay. Increased distributed training pay. The above is off the top of my head and probably about ⅓ of the improvements since bankruptcy. The work rule changes alone reduced our productivity 20% from 2007.
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You state this as if you have proof. You don’t know what the TA will look like. You don’t have any actual numbers as to the opener, it was a list of bullet points. We did lose a contract cycle, but your way resulted in a delayed contract in 2016, and that same 1 year delay in 2019 would have run us into covid related stoppages just the same. We don’t know how your way would have worked with LOAs 20-03 and 20-04, but I’m pretty darn happy with the results, so I could just point at that as proof that the current MEC’s way is better. That’s not how it works though, you can feel one ways better but you have no proof because you can’t run both ways side by side in some sort of parallel universe comparison.
Well I have proof we did not get the contract done on time. As far as the opener just the items published in it were showstoppers. Does anyone think the company was going to agree to a contract requiring 2500 more pilots when we were already among the least productive pilot groups? I wonder if most of the MEC even believed that but it looked good on paper!
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Old 10-07-2022, 09:33 AM
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Well I have proof we did not get the contract done on time. As far as the opener just the items published in it were showstoppers. Does anyone think the company was going to agree to a contract requiring 2500 more pilots when we were already among the least productive pilot groups? I wonder if most of the MEC even believed that but it looked good on paper!
And no proof a different approach would have gotten the contract done. Don’t forget the company negotiators had to be educated during the negotiations about what they were negotiating.

Does the company ever agree to the first offer?
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Old 10-07-2022, 10:48 AM
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Well I have proof we did not get the contract done on time. As far as the opener just the items published in it were showstoppers. Does anyone think the company was going to agree to a contract requiring 2500 more pilots when we were already among the least productive pilot groups? I wonder if most of the MEC even believed that but it looked good on paper!
Sailing and his least productive diatribe. Doesn’t mean anything as far as our contract. The company makes us least productive through incompetence and choices about airframe types and how they run bids and a multitude of other reasons that don’t mean we are getting paid more or it has much to do with our contract.
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Old 10-07-2022, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by gzsg
Doubling down?

We would be working for half if they had their way.

Sailing do you think any of us forgot your TA1? You just want zero ownership.

You guys would have set us back a decade.
Thank god we are under TA 2 and not 1 during these last 1000 days. And an “on time” contract in 2019. The company has a price they will sign. It takes time and effort to get to it. Low balling ourselves only hurts in the long run.

Im starting to think sailing wrote the slide in our QCQ that you should just get senior for more QoL.
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Old 10-07-2022, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
In 2007 Delta’s cost per block hour for pilots was 470.00. In 2019 it was 1239.00. The 2019 cost was probably the highest pilot block hour cost at any airline world wide and did not include profit sharing which would have elevated us even higher. That’s the value of knocking out timely contracts that compound. You also have to understand the RLA and how it functions. It flat out blocks grand slams.
As to your assertion that other parts of the contract have been neglected the DC plan went from 9 to 16%. Sick leave went from 65 hours to 270. Reroute pay improved dramatically. Greenslips went from 150 to 200%. Restrictions on greenslips in months with training or vacation were removed. Reserve duty rigs were improved to match line holders. Reserve pay was increased from a flat 70 hours to a average of 76. We retained the best crew augmentation policies world wide while almost everyone else caved. We improved disability from 40 hours a month pay to 50%FAE including profit sharing and made it fully pensionable. We increased min layover times substantially. We added more reserve days off and obtained early release options. We added a average daily guarantee. We improved on duty guarantees after midnight. We added time limits for return to base on reroutes. We added a enhanced disability account. We increased vacation and training pay. Increased distributed training pay. The above is off the top of my head and probably about ⅓ of the improvements since bankruptcy. The work rule changes alone reduced our productivity 20% from 2007.
Sailing that’s a great recap of information. The only question I have is, is the pilot cost per block hour adjusted for inflation? That way we can compare apples to apples
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Old 10-07-2022, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
In 2007 Delta’s cost per block hour for pilots was 470.00. In 2019 it was 1239.00. The 2019 cost was probably the highest pilot block hour cost at any airline world wide and did not include profit sharing which would have elevated us even higher. That’s the value of knocking out timely contracts that compound. You also have to understand the RLA and how it functions. It flat out blocks grand slams.
As to your assertion that other parts of the contract have been neglected the DC plan went from 9 to 16%. Sick leave went from 65 hours to 270. Reroute pay improved dramatically. Greenslips went from 150 to 200%. Restrictions on greenslips in months with training or vacation were removed. Reserve duty rigs were improved to match line holders. Reserve pay was increased from a flat 70 hours to a average of 76. We retained the best crew augmentation policies world wide while almost everyone else caved. We improved disability from 40 hours a month pay to 50%FAE including profit sharing and made it fully pensionable. We increased min layover times substantially. We added more reserve days off and obtained early release options. We added a average daily guarantee. We improved on duty guarantees after midnight. We added time limits for return to base on reroutes. We added a enhanced disability account. We increased vacation and training pay. Increased distributed training pay. The above is off the top of my head and probably about ⅓ of the improvements since bankruptcy. The work rule changes alone reduced our productivity 20% from 2007.
Delta's cost per block hour in 1900 was 0 (see I can also choose nonsensical points in time). Choosing one of the lowest points in the industry and comparing it to now is still just ignorant as you always do. In 2007 regionals were paying what 15/hr now were seeing +100/hr for FO's! Times change maybe you should look to the future instead of always trying to look into the past. It's not about where we came from it's where we are going.
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Originally Posted by interceptorpilo
The company makes us least productive through incompetence and choices about airframe types and how they run bids and a multitude of other reasons that don’t mean we are getting paid more or it has much to do with our contract.
Sadly, management and operational incompetence is also not something our competitors have to follow. Add pilot costs through vacation value, vacation accrual training value, per diem, rigs and hourly rates and you create a strong pressure that your peer group must raise costs to match. If you generate massive inefficiencies through stupid manning decisions and an overall reliance on volunteer premium pay and your peers just laugh at your mismanagement.

I want us to be competitive. Let’s do it smartly.
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
In 2007 Delta’s cost per block hour for pilots was 470.00. In 2019 it was 1239.00. The 2019 cost was probably the highest pilot block hour cost at any airline world wide and did not include profit sharing which would have elevated us even higher. That’s the value of knocking out timely contracts that compound. You also have to understand the RLA and how it functions. It flat out blocks grand slams.
As to your assertion that other parts of the contract have been neglected the DC plan went from 9 to 16%. Sick leave went from 65 hours to 270. Reroute pay improved dramatically. Greenslips went from 150 to 200%. Restrictions on greenslips in months with training or vacation were removed. Reserve duty rigs were improved to match line holders. Reserve pay was increased from a flat 70 hours to a average of 76. We retained the best crew augmentation policies world wide while almost everyone else caved. We improved disability from 40 hours a month pay to 50%FAE including profit sharing and made it fully pensionable. We increased min layover times substantially. We added more reserve days off and obtained early release options. We added a average daily guarantee. We improved on duty guarantees after midnight. We added time limits for return to base on reroutes. We added a enhanced disability account. We increased vacation and training pay. Increased distributed training pay. The above is off the top of my head and probably about ⅓ of the improvements since bankruptcy. The work rule changes alone reduced our productivity 20% from 2007.
And we didn’t keep up with inflation and I’m more tired than I’ve ever been and that includes a regional and an LCC.
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Sailing that’s a great recap of information. The only question I have is, is the pilot cost per block hour adjusted for inflation? That way we can compare apples to apples
No, that’s actual cost.
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