Originally Posted by
Akamai
HAL is the states largest employer and wasn’t going away but thanks for saving us. We have been around for 96 years and were very profitable prior to COVID. None of us wanted this but yet here we are.
I’m not saying what’s fair and how the SLI should go, I have merely pointed out what’s happened historically. The arbitrator will decide whats “fair” and we’ll all be unhappy.
Perhaps we should focus on getting improvements for ALL pilots in the JCBA.
It's a small State, that's not saying a whole lot. Our competition routinely supports roughly 10-15x the size.
My guess is we didn't need that many employees but nepotism is strong in HI and we were losing our shorts for 4+ years while everyone else was killing it. Our business would literally continue to be a losing effort as long as Japan (and the rest of that side of the Pacific) is not traveling. Japan hasn't even come back to the 40% mark because they destroyed their dollar. HI still compares everything to 2019 while the rest of the Country has rebounded or never succumbed to the lunacy in the first place. P.I. plan, as a typical accountant does, was to cut routes to profitability. Problem is he wasn't going to cut a route and add a new one. He was going to cut a route and just increase where we already flew to.
Adding one route a year and calling it a win wan't that Earth shattering. Going from "Content" to that 365 thing isn't ground breaking either, but that's what we waste our bandwidth on.