Originally Posted by
Kebert Xela
I didn’t nor do I claim to have any info or insight then or now. However, did United with the largest exposure to international and wide body fleet furlough? Delta with their JV’s going bankrupt and losing big on them furlough?
Did they threaten furloughs, absolutely. Did they have management saying that furloughs was the absolute wrong decision and they wouldn’t do it so they could take market share and be prepared for a recovery? Not to my knowledge. If they did, well they didn’t furlough and get caught with their pants down much like AA.
If AA sends a message they better live by it. Right now WE’RE dying by it and expected to do more because of their ineptness. Asking work groups to volunteer to work for free because they screwed up, give me a break. They don’t care about us and have proven they can’t handle running a company. We made less money than competitors during the good times! It’s just embarrassing now.
Vasu is a revenue guy, it stands to reason more pilots and planes always generate more revenue than fewer pilot and planes.
Vasu’s department isn’t obligated to concern themselves with overhead.
Interchanging “the company” with revenue mgmt department oversimplifies the difference between revenue and profit.
Saying they shouldn’t have furloughed is either just a desire, Monday morning quarter back, or saying they should have known exactly when this thing would be over.
Right now its good info, they have booked more work than what the pilot group can handle, maybe even with the furloughs back.