Mobissimo

Don't blame Delta management who must make business decisions in the real world environment instead of the fantasy world created by the Delta Pilots union. A pilot making $250,000 for 12 days of work and one month of vacation is not productive in a competitive market place. Three years ago when Delta management started warning Delta pilots about a possible bankruptcy, the pilots scoffed at Delta managements concerns. When Delta management asked the pilots for some financial relief from the highest salaries in the airline industry, the pilots were unresponsive. Now the pilots are suffering the consequences. They deserve their present state of affairs, but the other Delta employees do not deserve problems created by the pilots. Delta pilots would rather put Delta out of business and cause suffering and pain amongst the all the members than to work for $125,000 a year. This tells you a lot about the spoiled and self absorbed character of Delta pilots. A 50% reduction in pilot income is justified while it is not justified for mid-level Delta employees to take a 50% pay cut. If the pilot’s income falls 50% to $125,000 per year, they are still making more than 98% of the people in this country. $125.000 a year is a good income by anyone's standards. However, if you take a mid-level management person at Delta that was making $70,000 and reduce his income to $35,000 the incentive to stay with Delta during this crisis is substantially reduced. There would be a mass exodus of quality mid-level employees. Quite frankly, It is time to open the pilots union to the market economy and allow all the pilots that are presently out of work compete for the union jobs. If the free market economy works, I can assure you the Delta pilots will wish they had jobs making $125,000 a year.