Originally Posted by slick111

you seem to be under the mistaken impression that today's airline executives give a rats behind about tomorrow's problems. They don't!!!

To them, it's all about this fiscal quarter and this bonus period! They couldn't care less about their airline's ability to staff cockpits five years from now, because chances are that in five years, these mba-toting geniuses will have padded their résumés (and their stock portfolio) and will have moved on to another job, tightening the screws on yet another business entity,..... All in the effort to further burnish their résumés and reputations as today's brilliant industrial titans. They'd rather see their airline cease to exist in 5 years, as opposed to losing of a few bucks from their bonus check(s) because they had to give regional pilots an extra dollar per hour.

By the way, (and to be fair), this mindset is not unique to the airline industry. It's rampant throughout corporate america.