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Labor costs are the largest operating expense besides fuel. Management has more control/leverage over labor costs than it does with insurance, hangars, office space, aircraft leases, maintenance, etc.
You need to break down labor cost further, then compensation and when it winds down pilot compensation is a very small part of the pie. Management has chosen to hit us over the head for pilot cost, meaning everything that is required by regulations that we have no control over. If you are a pilot you shouldn't be thinking like management, when they reduce pilot cost they reduce pilot compensation, not the other related cost that we get smacked over the head with...