Originally Posted by
Iceberg
The current issues we are facing are a result of the overly conservative moves to cut cost last spring and summer. I get it, at the time things looked pretty abysmal and no one knew how long it would be. Were they slow to spin things back up? For sure, but they stuck with the overly conservative liquidity preserving direction they had put in place already. The issues of pilot staffing are the same as the catering. They got rid of a huge number of people and now have to bring them back or replace them with new. Being “woke” has nothing to do with this, it’s just being used as an attack by those who don’t agree with the politics.
Many of us made this point 7 months ago. We were excoriated by several of you.
Now our competition is walking away from us. Doesn't matter if we open middle seating to "flood capacity". Not a panacea as many of you have professed on these forums. Our brand is what sells our premium.. The brand is a chocolate mess.
Right now we suck. The customers know this; they are not happy. The wheel turns and it is going to run over us if we don't get our collective **** together. We are married to this beast, we'll be here for decades. Our management - not so much. It behooves us to raise the hand and tell the emperor he has no clothes.
Very telling we can't seem to figure out how to get catering to a jet. Gee, we were just doing this 8 months ago - whats the mystery?
But hey, at least we got those cool BLM pins to wear. SMDH.