Originally Posted by
Probe
I always respect the opinion of others. On this forum, their are a core of guys who I agree with 80 to 90 % of the time. James, you are one of them.
Once upon a time, we refused to fly 50 seat jets. They were "beginner jets' for "beginner pilots". 15 years later, when those jets took half of our domestic feeder flights, be beeaached and moaned about all of our domestic flying being outsourced.
Now, we want to make it painful and expensive to fly LAX to SYD and SFO to TLV? Really?????
Those are dream routes for airline pilots. That is the ultimate carrot why most of us became airline pilots.
If we make it difficult, expensive, and unreliable, it will be outsourced to a Star Alliance partner in a heart beat.
And we will beeaach, this is BS!!!!!! They just outsourced more of our flying!!!!!!
Look at our history. Do we really want to repeat it?
"Yes" vote. Only because "Hell yes" isn't an option.
I agree. The LCCs, along with the advent of internet based based ticket purchases, destroyed domestic yields. We lived through a lost decade as a result. During that time, the international side of the business kept the operation afloat. We now face a serious competitive threat to our international operation. Not only are we getting beat on price internationally, we are getting beat on service. Why on earth would we make it harder to compete? Just because the airplanes are on the property today doesn't mean they will be down the road.