Ive thought of this before as well, contract employees work great for front line people that can be trained for their position relatively cheaply in a few weeks. I would also like to see customer service skills being TAUGHT to these people instead of hoping they know how to treat people.

Pilots get a flat rate CA or FO pay per year that is based on other airlines weighted payscales. For example, take a 737 and find the average pay for the total payscale (add years 1-18 pay and divide by 2) for each airline operating the 737.

Company profits are divided 25% for shareholder dividends, 25% mgmt bonuses, 50% labor groups. To divide the labor group share, give each labor union their respective cash and have them split it up among their employees. Removes the company from responsibility and places pressure on the unions to either be fair to all or split the $$$ depending on years of seniority. Having % shares for employee groups keeps mgmt from growing un-necessarily large (which would reduce their individual bonus).

A new frequent flier program. APC Airlines has frequent fliers who accumulate points, and can redeem them for any other airline as long as they book through APC Airline who they originally got the points through. APC Airline travel dept books tickets on other airlines for the customers when they redeem points, which in turn gives APC Airlines an elite frequent flier status on all other carriers which is passed down to the APC customer when they fly. Complicated?