Originally Posted by
sailingfun
They should be but I doubt it helps much. Other than first year by a few bucks I think we exceed them still by a decent margin even using the temp not permanent rates. We could and probably should bring the relative cost per seat into the equation but at this stage I am not sure the moderator would give any weight to that. We hung our hat on the companies profitability as justification for our ask. I always felt that foolish as profitability changes rapidly in this industry.
FWIW, aside from AA wholly owneds, the rates are permanent