Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
If management wants to grow the company, they will grow it. If they want to shrink the company, they will shrink it. I don't think our scope clause or our pay (within the realm of SWA to C2K+COLA) will be the determining factor (or even a significant contributing factor) to management's decision to grow or shrink or stay the same.
Will significantly improving our scope (i.e. reducing or even eliminating the outsourcing) and significantly improving our pay create certain challenges for management? Of course. But that's what they get the big bucks for.
Oil/fuel prices spike through the roof? Management gets to come up with a plan to deal with that.
Tsunami takes out ATL (work with me here), management gets to come up with a plan to deal with that. (Okay, that one was really just my feeble attempt at humor.)
Pilot costs increase back to pre-bankruptcy levels as a percentage of total costs? Management gets to come up with a plan to deal with that.
Lunesta prescription price doubles. EB gets to come up with a plan to deal with that:
Let's see how much growing SWA does over the coming few years with that golden scope clause. But then again, they have a bunch of ready for furlough (or more appropriately.. ready to stagnate) guys over there that Gary Ichan bent over the table too... We can continue this discussion then..
Uh oh.. John Galt wold be angry with me