Originally Posted by
Aero1900
I believe that Frontier management is happy to be the 10th best on time airline, and maybe have the second to most DOT complaints. But this meltdown is not acceptable to them. Not that they feel bad for our passengers (obviously) but this costs them money. A single DOT tarmac delay fine will make this a money loser. Nothing will wake up this management team like having to pay a million plus dollar fine, and maybe multiple million dollar fines.
Lately, we have been killing it financially. This will throw a wrench in the money making train. Losing money will lead to change.
I disagree. Yeah, Frontier will pay fines but it won't be the max. Even if it's a couple million dollar fine and a few million dollar cost for the disruption, they still make more money the rest of the quarter running bare bones. Like I said early, they look at things in the long run. These events are acceptable. If it wasn't, our senior managers would have been gone long ago and this wouldn't be a "habit". Franke did this for years at Spirit and now he's doing it again with us since he bought this place. It's his strategy and he's got the proof to back it up. Get used to it my fellow minions.