Originally Posted by
flycrj200
As long as Mesa continues to offer major airlines with the least expensive commuter flying, they will continue to be the most competitive price wise and will continue to be in business. Major airlines do not care how management treats employees or anything else for that matter. All they care about is the bottom line. Mesa is able to offer the cheapest flying by screwing its employees. Mesa employees are the least paid in the industry. That is way they continue to be in business and will continue to do so. I think the employees of Mesa should stand up to the company and tell OJ and the rest of his team to f…. o…..
You are correct - major airlines certainly do not care how management treats employees, but they do care about how they treat their passengers. The big buzzward we have been hearing at DAL is how we want to establish a desireable "brand." Accordingly, management has been saying for months that we will reduce the number of connection carriers who fly our code, so as to have better quality control. They are not saying less connection flying (that is pretty much driven by fuel costs) just fewer carriers to divide up the flights.
Now what management says and what they do are not always the same thing. I don't think we would ever go back to only 2 or 3 connection carriers, it makes the connection carriers too valuable, and hence gives them more clout. During the Comair strike in 2000 DAL lost a ton of CVG feed and management does not want that to happen again.
I agree that cost is the most important factor but it is by no means the only factor.
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