Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
Thank you RJS for the pat on the head.
Can you please be more specific with your constructive criticism of my “message.”? It’s not like I go off on partisan political rants. So, what is it you don’t like?
Prospect, for example, really, really, really didn’t like that I made a “for fun” post that showed it would take $600/TFP to achieve a 30% premium over Delta at 10 years. If I recall correctly, you didn’t like that I produced some charts going out to 30 years. You said they weren’t realistic or something. I don’t remember exactly. Can you refresh my memory?
I like your RLA messaging and educating the masses. Your calculators are interesting... but your assumptions are too simplistic. It's kinda like myseniority and using it to predict upgrade times. Far too many variables - like for example when I was a newhire i.e. 15 years minimum to upgrade and 5+ years to hold ATL FO as a plug. Your spreadsheets are great, but your assumptions, particularly over the course of one's career are unrealistic because they're too simplistic. Now it's not a knock on you because it's rather impossible to predict. It would be helpful if you made your spreadsheets available so people can play with the numbers themselves.
Also, you tend to lose people when you kill them with the word salad. My suggestion would be to keep it short, sweet, simple, and to the point.
As for my political rants... yep, I've had a few and I'll still have them. In our context, it's to stop playing politics - left or right, and go back to running an airline because ours is falling apart and our focus appears to be on running a social justice PAC instead of an airline.