Originally Posted by
Old UCAL CA
Allow me...I'll be very quick.
The industry with the final three "legacies" and Southwest, is consolidated and fiercely competitive. No surviving management group at any surviving company is going to bless a deal that would put them at a competitive disadvantage with their industry peer companies. With an approximate +20% domestic market share at each of the four survivors, it minimizes the leverage obtainable from the NMB in a Sec 6 negotiation...too much potential for too much disruption. The MEC's likely did the best they could under consolidated circumstances.
There are a number of other issues related to your observation, but that's enough (no one reads this stuff anyways
).
I truly wish you the best in Sec 6.
I agree with you; mostly. I hope (probably forlornly) that maybe there could be some management people with foresight beyond the end of the quarter, or the end of their nose for that matter, that could see the value of happy employees in a customer service industry. I admit it's difficult to precisely quantify this in the short term but the logic of it is irrefutable to those of us out in the operation daily and it is achievable without a disproportionate or uncompetitive increase in costs.
By the way, I didn't even begin to invent this. Paging Mr Kelleher. Paging Mr Bethune. Paging Mr Patterson.