Originally Posted by
poopplop
It will probably affect the ATL market the most, but we do have tons of commuters in NYC as well. Just think, one full flight from MEM-ATL with 5 commuting pilots that must get on. That's a lot of dough. Plus inconveniencing the passengers could hurt the brand. Just look at United's example, one incident cost them millions and was a huge PR disaster. This would prevent a lot of those instances from occurring, but at the expense of retirees.
Then again, the retirees would be bumped first by the commuter policy anyway...
You keep using hypotheticals and what ifs so I'll do the same. I'll bet if you used the actual numbers we'd find out that bumping pax doesn't happen much at all (despite what might have happened at UAL) and that the result to our passenger experience and financial performance is next to nothing in the grand scheme of things.
On the other hand, one could prove pretty easily that you wouldn't be in the position you are right now at an airline job if it weren't for those retirees about to get screwed.