Originally Posted by
itsokimapilot
Absolutely agree. The best way to make us more attractive is to give us real industry leading pay rates. 12 year Capt rate equal to wide body Capt rates. FO rates equal to narrow body Capt rates at other carriers. This solves our fleet diversity, upgrade time and career earnings issues we face.
What makes you think our bean counters have any vision beyond what's on their spreadsheet? Until they can quantify this on their spreadsheets and had multiple studies done to prove it to them, it'll be way too late. Reminds me of a book From Worst to First by Gordon Bethune and the pizza example he used:
Say you're running a pizza place, and your boss says "The only way we're going to be a successful pizza place, and get customers, and make money, and win is to make a cheaper pizza." What are you going to do if you want to win, if you want to be rewarded by your boss? You're going to keep trying to make a cheaper pizza you're going to make thinner and thinner crust to save on flour you're going to use less and less sauce to save on tomatoes you'll buy canned rather than fresh vegetables frozen rather than fresh meat. Sooner or later somebody's going to get the bright idea to take half the cheese off, or all the cheese off, or make the pizza out of cardboard. Well, you can make a pizza so cheap nobody wants to eat it.
Trust me on this - we did it. So you're going to be making these incredibly cheap pizzas and the people in the cost department and the people in the supply department are going to be happy and high-fiving each other. They'll be saying "We're winning back here" and meanwhile upfront where the orders have dried up and the customers are complaining and no pizzas are selling you're not winning at all. In the end, it's like a canoe - the back end can be winning while the front end is sinking. If any part of the canoe is sinking, nobody cares how good the rest of the canoe is doing because the whole thing is going to sink.