Let's see what the Boys sign for Visual.
Don't forget the Boys that carry theirs' around in wheel barrows only fly about 800 hours a year and work 8-12 days a month MAX. Their quality of life is leaps and bounds better than ours. I know I have worked at both places.
While we work 15-18 days, don't get credit for the bunk (some of us go well over 900 hours a year), through the night etc etc they enjoy their jobs.
They also have in their contracts concepts practically no one at EK has even heard of much less experienced. Green Slips, Trip Credit, Duty Regs, Min Day and on and on. That means they can work less and boost their hourly rate, something that is sorely lacking here in the sand.
I know we will never achieve that here mainly because pilots here think EK is a good job and won't push for what is theirs.
Oh yeah before you Kool-Aid drinkers start Delta made over $450 million last year.