Originally Posted by
av8or
There’s a big difference between going from M.80 to LRC and going from M.78 to MCA. Btw, the letter states the reason for the slow down is lossed profitability due to A. Cost of oil (which has started to come back down) B. Increased wages and benefits (Prepping the ground for 2020) and C. Increased competition “on a level Alaska’s never experienced...”and the fact that at our already lower price ticket structure, our competitors have started rolling prices below ours (Delta putting their foot on the gas and Southwest stepping up their march forward.)
Yeah. Just an industry-wide slowdown. Riiiiiiight. 🤔
Are you saying that other airline employees, discussing the fact that their airlines are slowing the pace of hiring and growth while citing oil and staffing models, are full of sh!t and you know better then they? In the last month, there have been a number of threads on other airline boards, regarding slowing growth and hiring. They all sound eerily similar to many of the threads on Alaska’s boards. If a majority of airlines are starting to experience similar, all be it at different percentages due to size of the airlines, circumstances, then yeah, I guess you could call it an industry wide slow down. AS just made a 13% margin. That’s down from last Q2. Now you could say they lost money compared to last year or you could say they made money and beat their projections this Q2. It’s all how you look at it. I’m looking at the fact that other airline employees are saying things are slowing down due to the same things, WE at AS, are slowing down for. Oil, staffing models, competition etc. Those are just facts as stated by those who work for those companies. You can come up with all the neat analogies about slowing your Mach speed you want but it doesn’t change what’s going on. Are you truly terrified that AS is in the midsts of its death throes? It shouldn’t come as any surprise that management will use those lower profit margins as a backdrop for negotiations come 2020. That’s par for the course....Yawn....move along, nothing to see here. Just ride the ride and put that umbrella away cuz the sky isn’t falling.