Originally Posted by
cactipilot
Well, it has to be far cheaper for the company to have more, new Captains than to pay fewer captains more money and more risk of penalty pay for longer than normal work routines due to a shortage, no?
All employees get paid a minimum guarantee, optional health insurance, retirement matching, profit sharing (after first year), etc. I think just adding more bodies to the payroll makes it more expensive than to just pay fewer people a little more money to cover the same amount of work. Their benefits, health insurance, etc. remains the same. The only extra cost is their extra pay so I dunno. In my head, it seems as though paying fewer people a little more money to cover extra work would be cheaper than properly staffing, even if they are all first year captains.
"Short staffed is the new normal staffed."