Originally Posted by
Feng
What if it was an ultra low cost obgyn / hospital that charges less for delivery and pre delivery services by providing a no frills / no pamper accommodations along with lower labor cost? The doctor signed on initially and agreed to work for 30-60% less than doctors at traditional practices, and all of a sudden demand to be paid like traditional practices even though the business model is not setup to have the same revenue as a traditional operation? Perhaps he/she should quit and find employment in a traditional office.
Oh it's not absurd or unreasonable at all that people are saying they won't agree to $500/hr with 50% DC if pbs or no changes to LTD is involved. Jeeesh, I wonder if anyone would underwrite a private LTD plan now that you can spend that extra 300K/yr you'll be making for premiums.
I see your point, but giving up all of our work rules for Allegiant rates will never happen. And the one thing you fail to mention in your example.......there is an industry changing Doctor shortage looming on the horizon. Regional Airlines'a upper management teams use to be as arrogant and ignorant as the ULCC teams are. It won't be long before Spirit will be needing to do phone interviews and offer signing bonus just to get pilots to come work for these crappy rates. This whole attitude of "We don't need to be competitive to attract quality ATP licensed pilots........it's our business model.......go to someplace better if you want to be paid better."....this attitude will absolutely destroy the airline over the course of time. Good luck telling the board why we had to park brand new airplanes in long term storage because we don't have enough pilots to fly them. Spirit is a money tree and the NK management team is going to kill it because they wanted to save money on the water by watering it only once a week.