Originally Posted by
m3113n1a1
Yeah the cost is wayyyy lower than people think. Really it's just moving commuters to the top of the non-rev list. Because how many flights depart each day with zero non-revs on? Very few. So those seats are just going to positive space commuters first--instead of non-revs, not instead of paying passengers in the vast majority of cases.
I think people need to forget about the actual cost, because that is one, a moving target, and two, you are dealing with a company that has irrational measures.
Beside the pay & trip coverage problems, which are actually caused by the same issue, look at the problems the company focuses its most obnoxious non-compliance on: crew meals, state sick leave and dead head seating.
Ask yourself what those things have in common.