Thank you and great info (I didn’t realize this was occurring to this degree & can see how this creates leverage for the company that justifies more WO’s - even with some additional overhead - rather than fewer)
Originally Posted by
Otterbox
Piedmont has almost 8k employees throughout the country... most of which are its ground services group, so there’s a lot more to the airline than just the pilots and planes. Envoy also has a large ground services group. Both groups do the work of a double the work of a mainline employee (many are dual quad) for a fraction of the costs.
AAG regularly play the WOs against each other. Folks are most familiar with this occurring on the pilot and planes front, however it happens regularly on the ground side where Envoy will loose a ground service contract to Piedmont, allowing the same work to be done as cheaply as possible.
Eliminating the ability to have WOs undercut each other price wise for work will inflate costs beyond what is palatable as well as give labor groups at the airlines more leverage long term more than offsetting the costs savings of eliminating a few management positions.