Originally Posted by
j3cub
I dont think MG is that stupid. He knows what needs to be done. Why spin your billion dollar baby down the drain just to be spiteful? No. 6 months max is my prediction. But who knows?
Except that Maury really is that spiteful. He cut his own nuts off with the furloughs and previous years of complete warfare with labor. Remember, we're just another ****ing airline now.
Originally Posted by
FreshWater
Imo M.G. is holding out for another world-wide cataclysmic event that kills pilot hiring at the good airlines. He talks like he can pick up plenty of eastern pilots still on the street. He’s rooting for Putin to rush Ukraine and chain react a massive multi-national military engagement. Remember how perky he got when covid first broke out? He took the mantle, telling us how it is; Do the math people, unprecedented times, we’re all going to have to make sacrifices, your union better get flexible, yadda yadda.. Furlough. Stupid union, it’s your fault. He loved it.
My guess more than six months.
Absolutely. He seemed almost gleeful in that early covid memo when he talked about rolling the company back to 2010 levels. You could almost hear the ice cubes clinking in the glass of fine scotch. There was utter glee in Tracy's tone when she got to send her Plan B emails every Friday in the summer of 2020. Have we already forgotten about that?
Allegiant is the kind of company that wins when everyone else is losing. That's Maury's superpower. So of course he's rooting for the world to fall apart again. He ain't right in the head and only cares about himself, his buddies, and his money. This is the guy who created the ValuJet disaster with his callous dirtbag cheapness.
It's been said on this forum and I'll say it again. Maury couldn't care less what happens to the people or how small this airline gets as long as he still maintains a 20% profit margin his shareholders will kiss his ass and regard him as an industry hero. He will find a way to make that happen labor contracts and attrition be damned.
This is going to be a much smaller airline in a couple years.