Originally Posted by
Tom Bradys Cat
UA should want both to survive. If it kills one then the remainder has a monopoly in the market. This is all just a game to drive down prices 'oh you bettee be cheaper than c5.' (Vice versa)......
Suppose either goes down....then two.months later there is no competition; this allows the surviving organisation to drive the contract back up. It just doesn't make sence.
Speculation:
United doesn’t care about a monopoly 145 operator because the airframe is going away. They’ll use it as a cheap stopgap for a year or two until demand comes back and they have time to figure out the rest of the fleet plan. Whoever ‘wins’ this ludicrous cage match is only delaying the inevitable for a few years before they too get the TSA treatment.
The work groups will have no leverage to negotiate pay increases while the company is getting 500 resumes per hour and filling new hire classes with as many bodies as they wish. The current CPAs are interim month to month extensions. The ‘permanent’ one will have a 2-3 year duration at barely break even reimbursement rates.
Further speculation:
Jeff Bezos is watching this and learning. These same delightful tactics will be coming to the ACMI world sooner or later. The groundwork is already being laid.