Originally Posted by
DirkDiggler9999
Did that help or hurt the bottom line?
I agree that NK pilots are paid below market rates. When NK was making money, what were those rates considered? They were good rates for the company because the company was profitable. When raises came, NK could not raise fares and ancillary fees enough to support the raises. The market did not support that. In 2015, NK profit was roughly $300M. Half of revenues came from ancillary. If NK could make $300M annual profit today, they would be able to survive with no problem. This is just an example, but compare 2015 wages to pre-BK wages.
You’re way oversimplifying the change that occurred in the industry over the last ten years.
The whole talk of wages based on company profit is stupid anyway and not a path any pilot should want to go down. ALPA has been fighting that mentality since the beginning.