Originally Posted by
tailendcharlie
Other than maintenance, I think if you repeated to a UA/AA/DL pilot the bit about investing in people/infrastructure accountability you would get a big laugh. & they're all corporations - their first duty is to their shareholders, all of them.
Or that they spend a year and a half TDY on schedules that prevent them from getting home. Or that they can't get paid correctly, scheduled correctly, reimbursed correctly, ok anything correctly.
I think it's a little bit more than maintenance. As I said, I'd avoid comparisons to real airlines.