Originally Posted by
SharpestTool
Carl,
Thanks for making my point about costing.
No matter how hard you try, you'll never be able to back up your claim of being able to cost out future profit sharing.
Originally Posted by
SharpestTool
You are letting emotion to interfere with your higher order reasoning processes. Of course management ultimately determines the upper bound for their largest cost expenditure. That is why they are there.
Again, you're describing life at a non-union airline. In a union airline, the upper boundary is determined at the end of a legal Section 6 process. That's why there are strikes occasionally.
Originally Posted by
SharpestTool
If we determined that for them we wouldn't be in business very long. I want to make $500 an hour! If I could get us all to agree with that figure, according to you we would establish that rate. This assuming the NMB would sign off on such a thing, which they wouldn't. They are cognizant of how business works.
In a unionized shop, there's a process. Neither side gets to dictate the ultimate size of the pie. In a non-union airline, management does.
Carl