Originally Posted by
shiznit
You are looking at this from the wrong side...
Pilots are actually the ones SELLING the car not buying it.
The Company is perfectly happy driving around in the old beater that gets decent gas mileage and doesn't have a monthly payment.
The REAL question is: How do you convince them that upgrading to a newer and less efficient car is worth taking out a car payment?
I don't think that analogy works in this case, as UA is losing a pile of money in synergies operating with 2 separate pilot groups. It partially worked in the DL TA case, but even there the company was trying to do the RJ trade.