Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The contract provides a method to cover contingencies, weather, maxes ect.. It worked fine this summer and the company produced simply fantastic numbers. They will not dramatically overman the airline 9 months out of the year. It would be a stupid way to conduct business and the biggest complainers if they did man the airline that way would be the pilots. Guys would be screaming about 65 hours a month and their inability to swap or drop anything.
I can't argue against anything you said here, but I will stand by my contention that if service suffers, it WILL drive away customers. ANd THAT is a stupid business method, because everybody knows it costs more to attract customers than to retain them. I agree that guys would ***** if ALVs went to 65, etc etc etc...
Next summer will be interesting. I'm still anxious to see if the LATAM deal actually produces anything good for us outside of CONUS. Not holding my breath however.