Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
Sooooooo, you want to keep the money losing 50 seaters? 311 are attached to leases through 2015 and beyond. Instead, there could be 125 total, and 70 seaters (102 of them) could fill in on outgoing 50 seat routes. They won't just drop the routes that the 150 50 seaters are currently flying. Maybe then those routes can make more profits. That helps everyone. Where would the 717s fly to? Maybe current 76 seat routes that could make even more money? Now you are starting to understand.
I have to echo what FTB said: You really want to make it
more profitable for management to outsource our jobs??
We
have been making a profit, and look what that got us in this TA: the loss of profit sharing %. Great pay raises (sarcasm) that, when you factor in inflation and the loss of profit sharing, equates into
maybe a 10-12% raise over the 4 years? Or how about the work rule changes (ALV and the like) that by the unions own admission will result in around 300 positions lost. And lets not forget the whopping 1% increase in DC contribution...that if I am not mistaken, doesn't even come into effect until 2014??