Originally Posted by
tennisguru
Again, there's only one airline currently out there with a lower cost right now. If DP wants to dole out any wholly-owned flying to other carriers he's going to pay more to do it, plus lose the "in house profit" benefit. He's better off keeping the flying in-house and at least increasing the pay to match what it'd cost to outsource it in some attempt to maintain staffing here.
The only airline that I can think of that could potentially handle the staffing is Expressjet (ERJ side) since they're pretty much going to be gutted soon of all their 50 seaters, but again that is still going to cost more than any wholly-owned.
I'm not saying they will get rid of PSA and give away their plane I'm just saying they won't grow PSA. We are fully staffed and it won't take much to maintain what we have we just can't grow. What I'm saying is Parker will give away our planes to a cheaper place before he gives us more money. We may get a little more but I'm sure they know exactly how much it cost for each regional to do their flying and if giving us endeavor pay makes us one cent more expensive than say Mesa our flying will be given to them. Remember envoy is overstaffed and I'm sure would love to take any flying we can't do. Some where along the line the PSA pilots got in their minds that they had all this leverage and we only have leverage if we're cheap so unfortunately we won't get planes if we're paid more and we won't get pilots if we're not paid more. We're basically stuck where we are at with no real movement.