Originally Posted by
Mesabah
The fact that they paid that much for RAH was the tell that pilots don't matter anymore. Our salaries, both yours and mine, are so low that they don't matter operationally anymore. In the 90's pilot salaries were 15% of revenue, now they are less than 3%. It's all market share, and work rules now that market pricing control has returned driving our future. We pilots tend to think it's all about us, but the DCI relationship is more strategic these days than arbitraging some salaries of pilots.
I agree. I think the value in DCI to management is largely theoretical based on outdated and broken models.
Just look at how they operate their regionals. Before the CMR strike, majors tended to give regionals total to near total control of any given hub, and it worked great. Recovery and manning was a breeze, and once they got control of the crappy ASA ramp in ATL, things were run relatively well. Then, in order to insulate themselves from a once in a several decade theoretical event that may or may not ever happen again, they trashed the entire system every day, spazzing about "diversifying their portfolio" and now when something happens it has a massive ripple effect, force multiplied by adding in incompetent cut throat operators specifically to harm your good ones. :roll eyes:
Right now maybe the best thing we can do is let them choke on their shortage. They can throw large bonuses and SSP's at some groups, but not all of them. And even then there's been no supply creation and they're still ignoring it.
No more 76ers IMO.