Don't say things like that

Our pay rates are built into the hourly cost of aircraft usage. the fact that we are roughly 40% lower wasn't a silver bullet so far as revenue. The poor result of this quarter is because of not charging enough, to many bases and poor staff utilization. (from day turns). And as always an exceedingly bad reputation. This airline is turned inside out. the poorly thought out adjustments to the way we do business result in high turnover, low experienced pilots and Flight attendants and direct competition with NK while trying to be Ryan Air yet somehow failing miserably.

A low overhead model works not just as an Airline but just about every other kind of business as well. Our problems are not low overhead ,but poor execution.

If this company is going to fail it is not going to be because of flight crew pay rates.

Put another way. they offer nothing , we ask for the sun the stars and the moon. we end up somewhere in the middle
they offer nothing (as they have already) we ask for a modest pay raise and you can expect 30 to 50 % of what you ask for.

In four years people will be leaving F9 to go to SkyWest for the money if the situation does not improve.