Originally Posted by
da42pilot
Spending money on things that pay for themselves is easy. RJs generate a monetary ROI. New ground equipment saves money by increasing reliability/reducing waste. New livery and uniforms also generate a ROI, although not directly.
Like it or not, a pay rise for pilots isn’t going to yield an ROI to United unless they negotiate other productivity improvements. And that’s the way they see it.
”Billions in buybacks” was on RJDio’s list. No ROI for the company on that. Just a pure pay raise for execs, some of their compensation based on that. No productivity improvement involved. Yes, “that’s the way they see.” That’s the way they always see it. For us, this for that, a zero sum contract. For them, it’s this, and lots more of this. That’s now how we see it hopefully. We should greater compensation not necessarily offset by anything other than the fact that there is no product without us, the employees, and that product is very good right now. Mountains of cash.