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DOT data hasn't been released for average compensation.Same here. Ideally one that includes entry/mid scale/ TOS numbers...
you can compare scales if you want, but ALL of it has to include 16.5% increase in profit sharing which the Machinists union refuses to want to acknowledge.
It is precisely when you include that profit sharing number that DL's rate of compensation increases is far larger than what ANY US airline has paid its people but it puts DL's total compensation above nearly every other US airline.
It is the IAM and union supporters that have the obligation to value all of these supposed QOL and workrule changes that the IAM can get (cough, cough like after 7 years of trying to negotiate a contract at ExpressJet) and show how much they benefit ALL DL employees.
and they can't and they won't. because even the supposed extra vacation pay disproportionately benefits AA's topped out FAs. newsflash: DL has been actually growing its FA corps which is what an airline can do when they bring work home to DL from regional carriers.
AA's traffic report showed that regional carrier capacity grew by 8.6% while mainline capacity was flat. Latin capacity was down 5% while TATL capacity was down 9%.
all of that great extra vacation won't do a hill of beans worth of good to AA FAs at the bottom of the seniority list given that AA has taken a strategy of shrinking their network and the APFA contract does NOTHING to stop AA from transferring a bunch of flying to regional carriers.