Originally Posted by
Work4life
Virgin America was a LCC. Low Cost Carrier=undercutting. Enough said. Your boy screwed up by overcharging pax hence your airline wasn't profitable. VX achieved more in 10 years than.....is that why your boy decided to ditch your beloved airline? Achieving means profits and thriving in business. VX didn't turn a profit until the very end, which was minuscule. VX was acquired and went bye bye-dead! You can achieve all you want but doesn't matter when you are history. The last man standing wins. Work rules include retirement, pay, and over all compensation. True, many of the our scheduling work rules were gutted during Kasher (before my time) but you are only referring to your scheduling/bidding rules when you are talking about work rules, right? Alaska pilots never voted away scope because we never had concrete scope. Get the facts straight. You decided work for a start up low cost airline and do as Branson said. You didn't have a contract and you had zero protection. Indeed, you chose to work for a company that under cut the rest of the industry so yes, you are a hair above a scab.
It is so cute how you lack even the most basic understanding of finance and business. My "boy" I assume you mean Branson? You realize he wasn't a majority shareholder right? He didn't choose to sell the airline, the majority shareholders did. Again, I ask you, please do some reading and homework so you can actually add value to a conversation without making BS up as you go, it makes you look ridiculous. AS fares are lower than VX in most competing markets, so what does that make AS? An ULCC? Please, show me where they undercut AS or any other airline for that matter. Show me a market that VX entered and undercut every airline that served that market, and drove them out due to ticket prices, I'll wait...