Originally Posted by
RemoveB4flght
Column A: cost efficiencies achieved through increasing pay and training to ground and underwing staff, revamping dispatch, ops, and network planning, and making significant investments into overhauling IT and passenger interface, overhauling training footprints, etc.
Column B: Money saved by not doing above - Money spent on consequences of not doing above.
Accountants: which pile of money is larger? Solution: do that.
me: follows the contract, does what I am paid to do, worries about the things I can control, let’s others worry about the things I cannot, carries on living the rest of my life.
agreed with noise. They can do what they want but operational choices soon start to affect flight crew and makes our jobs harder or more complicated. We don’t have the support of management or good ancillary staff that would otherwise make this job easier and smoother.
the original topic started because a new hire said that this place has fantastic qol and therefore should be a career destination for anyone and everyone. The reality is operationally things can be a head, more of a headache than it has to be only because of the financial/operational decisions management makes.