Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Again I ask: "What is our core business?" "Then why don't we invest in that?"
I had a comment that I thought complemented your question until I read scambo's post and was reminded of the reality...
Originally Posted by
scambo1
Bar,
Pilots think our core business is safely transporting passengers. Management thinks our core business is selling tickets. They are investing in what they perceive our core business is.
... we're a ticket broker. We can offer service on Delta Air Lines, Delta Connection by any one of several lowest bid airlines, we also offer service on Alaska, and AF/KLM, and Skyteam. It can't be more obvious. We're stub hub. We don't own the stadiums, we just sell the tickets. As in delta.com > Delta Air Lines.
Originally Posted by
gloopy
I'm also noticing a pattern of volatility emerging from the semi-company quasi endorsed rumor mill. CP's, LCA's and other folks in high(er) places are running the gambit from "impending hiring and awesome early outs" to "endless stagnation and be greatful we aren't furloughing...yet" and back again. Not saying the ones spreading the rumors are "in on it" necessarily, but they are getting their info from somewhere and those sources only give them what they want to give them knowing full well it will "leak". PsyOps 101.?
Intriguing post.
Now I must go google - counter psyops.
Originally Posted by
gloopy
Doesn't it allow guys to fly more than they otherwise could? And if so, doesn't that skew the numbers of required reserves and whatnot? It isn't the biggest factor in staffing but it impacts it to some degree. Not to mention its pretty shady. We have way too much to fight for than trying to preserve all the little micro empires like trip parking, LCA buddy bidding and the narcotic pursuit of touch drop vacations. That's a lot of fat concentrated in very, very few places. High cost : low benefit.
That's not Bar btw because he wouldn't have been the catalyst behind himself being displaced. The reaction may be identical though, but it's not Bar.
