Originally Posted by
TANSTAAFL
I think 2 things are a given:
1) The company will ask - it's their job. Expect it to come gift wrapped in something that will appeal to the weak minded, selfish, and naive.
2) There will be a percentage of the pilot group as mentioned above who will bite. Not enough to matter, but enough to burn up a few keyboards
I agree.
The one thing we kind of having going for us and I hope I'm right about this. But I count the average age of our pilots at 50.5, maybe the median being around 51.5.
This will not be their last contract. Even if they plan to go out by 60 they've got most likely 2 contracts to go. More if they want to go to 65.
Of course, if some think they can get a big win and then fly til the contract is over and cash out, then yes we've got a problem with those who are willing to deal away any Delta flying.
The other thing- if you give RAH E190s for Delta, you're just funding Frontier and whatever else RAH dreams up. Same with Skywest Holdings and same with TSA Holdings. We're growing a problem.
There was a time you competed against other airlines but some how we've morphed this industry to where you don't compete with others. You leave their territory alone and they'll leave you alone too to the point it looks like one airline pulls out of RDU/BNA and the other in kind pulls out of DFW. Tin foil hat is on.
In the meantime, you make your employees compete for their own work. Competition is not based on growth but from reducing costs by competing from within.