Originally Posted by
Gen6
The benefits to the company probably aren't as big as you imagine and I don't think most people in support of PS have looked at the massive revenue hit that it is when load factors are up (North of 80% pre-covid and higher for flights during the reasonable hours). I heard someone at Delta in one of their townhalls bring this same point up. Management's answer was schedule reliability actually went down with PS. They said it was mostly because people gave themselves no wiggle room so when there were issues with the plane or ATC etc. it was an immediate hit that was hard to cover. Before people were commuting with back ups in place.
That very well could be true under DL current agreement? If PS language is in the AIP I would expect to see some protections on the company side. I don’t work for either company but there could be value on the companies side depending on the language (protections). That’s one reason why it’s hard to quantify without knowing language details.