Originally Posted by
MatchPoint
The highest cost to an airline is fuel followed by labor. Since SkyWest doesn't pay for fuel labor is their highest cost. Regardless of how you cut it all cost associated with an airline effect the bottom line and paying every pilot $2 more per hour equates to $5.7M+ in increased cost.
3180 pilots x 75 hr (MMG) = 238,500 x 12 months = 2,862,000 hours x $2 = $5,724,000
That’s only pilots; all labor groups want more money. I'm not saying we're now worth more, we are, but we must stay competitive. $2 more per hour isn’t worth stagnation and lost contracts.
matchpoint, the union email that has been going around for a week or mentions that SKW will be parking 100 airplanes while EXJ parks 150, all whom are being flown for United, what the latest on that? Also, how about the Delta 50 seaters from last year. It was something like 66. Have they all been parked?