Originally Posted by
iahflyr
Well my estimate of number of furloughs just increased now that management isn’t cutting hours of 15,000 workers from 40hrs a week to 30hrs a week. Doug Parker is a smart guy, and that was just another knife in the gut for an already bleeding UAL.
United can not afford paying full payroll of 93,000 people for the next 6 months while making virtually $0 in revenue and having all the other fixed costs that cannot be shed. This is going to be ugly.
I disagree. Shrinking to profitability has never worked. If we have the airplanes and the people in place... How about we fly some people. We can't keep cutting back flights and wonder why no one is flying. Not flying to Geneva and Zurich until Oct out of ewr when our competitors are charging and getting 2000+ for a coach seat is just dumb. Let's get back to making money. There are pockets of demand and we aren't responding.