Originally Posted by
dracir1
How exactly would one know that?
Keep in mind that F9 had the highest paid pilots pre 9/11. Of course, that was long ago, new owner, new circumstances, yada, yada, yada but why would ANYONE think they would be paid less perpetually after 1 contract cycle?
HAHAHAHAHA you trying to justify this? G4 had industry leading rates from about August 2016 to 2017 and then the legacies jumped (starting with delta) us. But I never thought our union hating founder (Gallagher) would actually pay us on par with legacies. Did you know nothing about Indigo, Franke, BB, etc?
If you nickel dime your passengers, gate agents, why wouldn’t the bosses nickel and dime by far their most expensive labor group?
I’ll list them:
1. Indigo
2. ULCC
3. Look at your margins, they were great and you still didn’t get close to industry leading when compared to how far behind you were with the legacies.
4. Hiring standards. F9 has never been as competitive as the legacies with their hiring standards (post bankruptcy and indigo acquisition). It’s not a dig, G4 is the same way. It doesn’t do anybody any good to ignore reality.
5. Revenue differential between the big four and F9.
6. F9 is not “too big to fail”.