Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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And you want to hear something really funny? My MOM was a high school English Teacher! I drove her NUTS, still do, when I write her a letter!
This damned English Language, it's like all the words are spelled differently but sound the same, or spelled the same but sound different.
We should go back to Latin!
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... Oh, to be a Delta pilot in the 1980's! Most of those guys did stagnate at the beginning of their career, but boy did they move up quickly after that! By that time senior captains were pulling down the equivalent of half a million per year in salary alone in today's dollars, while enjoying the insanely feather bedded contract of the time... hardly work! Non rev in first class on your ample time off to anyplace, anytime. Normal staffing on the 727- 5 or 6 cabin crew, stay together for the entire trip. Young, hot, fun and mostly female stews... (weighed at sign in)... what drug testing? Crew cars at the layover... cheap everything everywhere- gas less than a buck, new Cadillac Eldorado 16K, loaf of bread 40 cents... If you were lucky enough to fly international then, when the mighty US Dollar was king, you might as well be on the Grand Tour. What is the TSA? ---All that and hang it up at 60 with a few million lump sum pension and virtually free healthcare. Then nothing to do but polish the corvette and head to the FBO for some fun in the Bonanza, drinks after on the boat at Lake Lanier!
My point- today's stagnated 90's or early 00 hire has seen an enormous loss of pay, benefits, retirement, QOL, and prospects of advancement in this era of code share and ever larger replacement jets. Cost of living in the USA has increased enormously, and we are being taxed to death. If you have kids and you're an FO, chances are your wife is either working or looking for work. You just can't provide the same standard of living that you could 25 years ago. Healthcare costs alone have taken a huge chunk out of take home pay. Most guys are flying a lot more. There is really no comparison to the pilots and contracts of the bygone days in most respects.
My point- today's stagnated 90's or early 00 hire has seen an enormous loss of pay, benefits, retirement, QOL, and prospects of advancement in this era of code share and ever larger replacement jets. Cost of living in the USA has increased enormously, and we are being taxed to death. If you have kids and you're an FO, chances are your wife is either working or looking for work. You just can't provide the same standard of living that you could 25 years ago. Healthcare costs alone have taken a huge chunk out of take home pay. Most guys are flying a lot more. There is really no comparison to the pilots and contracts of the bygone days in most respects.
That's all true, but the worst part is, it's not over yet. We are still sliding backwards, and now with the New World Order, we are going to have to compete with the Third World. Want to guess what they make?
Pick up a copy of the book: "The World is Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman. (sp?)
Here's the Reader's Digest version:
India and China -each- have 1.3 BILLION people, all looking to take your job, at 10 cents to your dollar.
In the old days, they didn't have the education and couldn't get education. Now, due to the Internet, they are getting educated, and have the skills, and 10X the manpower. Look at all the manufacturing jobs the USA has already sold to China and India.
It's just beginning, get ready for more jobs to be outsourced in the coming years.
In 20 years our kids will look back at today and say, "Those were the good old days..."
That's all true, but the worst part is, it's not over yet. We are still sliding backwards, and now with the New World Order, we are going to have to compete with the Third World. Want to guess what they make?
Pick up a copy of the book: "The World is Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman. (sp?)
Here's the Reader's Digest version:
India and China -each- have 1.3 BILLION people, all looking to take your job, at 10 cents to your dollar.
In the old days, they didn't have the education and couldn't get education. Now, due to the Internet, they are getting educated, and have the skills, and 10X the manpower. Look at all the manufacturing jobs the USA has already sold to China and India.
It's just beginning, get ready for more jobs to be outsourced in the coming years.
In 20 years our kids will look back at today and say, "Those were the good old days..."
Pick up a copy of the book: "The World is Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman. (sp?)
Here's the Reader's Digest version:
India and China -each- have 1.3 BILLION people, all looking to take your job, at 10 cents to your dollar.
In the old days, they didn't have the education and couldn't get education. Now, due to the Internet, they are getting educated, and have the skills, and 10X the manpower. Look at all the manufacturing jobs the USA has already sold to China and India.
It's just beginning, get ready for more jobs to be outsourced in the coming years.
In 20 years our kids will look back at today and say, "Those were the good old days..."
I agree that if management finds the lack of hiring has put them in a real bind staffing-wise, they will seek relief from ALPA (and ALPA will likely cave... (again)).
In addition to the two options you listed, another would be giving pilots the option to sell back their summer vacations. There's precedent for that...
In addition to the two options you listed, another would be giving pilots the option to sell back their summer vacations. There's precedent for that...
TEN
I think our profession now places too much emphasis on seniority, to the point we have significant "winners" and "losers" among our pilot group; based on nothing more than the day they were hired, relative to the thousand of others. Anyone hired in the "back of the wave" in an individual hiring cycle has a disproportionately lower career earnings potential, and while this was always true to a degree, the length of the post 9/11 lost decade has really amplified the normal effect of this.
But good luck trying to get a majority of pilots to agree with that, and actually formulate changes to mitigate it....
But good luck trying to get a majority of pilots to agree with that, and actually formulate changes to mitigate it....
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Tiger's looking good. He's on the hunt.
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Even if they got unlimited SC, short categories hardly ever sit the max as it is during busy months. Pay banding might slightly reduce some "sport bidding", and we have some; I know guys that have bid out of their non commuting base for a transcon commute to go one narrowbody pay grade up.
Yeah.
Anyway we've reached V1 on this summer and maybe even the following holiday season(s) as well as the following spring break if the fake stimulus economy doesn't "correct" by then. We will leave revenue on the table instead of hiring a small amount to cover the 9/71 transition.
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