5% is just a drop in the bucket. Why go after employees pay first? That should be LAST!!
Sean Menke may have been a good guy at Frontier, but now he's making big mistakes.
How about going after Phil Trenary, Doug Shockey and Clive Seals contracts first - since they all get monthly payments and don't even work there, or even do consulting like they should be.
Pinnacle just wastes money non stop, that's the problem. Leave the pilots industry standard wages alone.
I have seen millions of dollars wasted upon unused sim time, when managers simply forgot about all the sim time purchased in other cities. And now seeing pilots going through worthless training, just to follow a few weeks later to go through training on different equipment. What a waste.
The pilots could work for free, and If management doesn't streamline the operation, then it still looses money.
This problem is totally the result of a mis-managed company from the top down.