Delta Furloughs
Was talking to a sim instructor for Delta who painted a rather grim picture at Delta with 850 pilots on furlough and 60 furlough notices a week still going out.What I found interesting was the comments he made regarding an MD-11 captain who had to move back to the right hand seat of a 767 because of these redundancies. He complained that he had had to take a $50,000 pay cut due to the demotion. When asked what his salary was as an MD-11 captain, he said he was on $300,000. I really cannot see how the majors can continue to pay that sort of money and stay in business. My last job as a 767 captain, I took home $4,000 a month including expenses and I gather there has been a pay cut since then.