Originally Posted by
illtake2
My point wasn't to get in a ****ing match, my point was, if you have wish in one hand and **** in the other which weighs more?
I wish we knew how to cost a proposal, I wish we knew the magic number of what will break the company what will allow us both to prosper. We as the average line pilot don't know that, we have no clue. We can stand on a stump and demand to be paid with our peers, but who are our peers? How far are we willing to go? Strike, bankruptcy, liquidation?
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I say again, please don't be so naive you think that Alpa and our NC don't know what a proposal costs. Read the transcript. They know what it all costs. If you think spirit is going bankrupt if they give us an industry leading contract you are either delusional or think we play a much bigger part in the overall cost of running this place than we do. It's just math. They can afford it, and we can all keep going on this ulcc joy ride together at the same time.
This isn't a regional airline where they pass all costs along to the mainline carrier and labor is literally the only cost that they absorb themselves and has 1 for 1 percentage relationship where labor costs go down 1% and profits go up 1%.
This is a real airline and it doesn't work that way. We are a cost and also happen to be the highest cost labor group but a small blip on the overall cost radar. They can afford an industry leading contract easily I assure you.