Originally Posted by Bulldog319

Minimal impact on a minimal margin is a lot larger than you might think.

$53 million profit last quarter, saving 400lbs a flight would have boosted that up at least another $5 million at the gas prices we had then. That's about a 10% impact on profit.

They are messing up a lot of things up by themselves. If I don't have a gate agent within 90 seconds I crank the APU. Almost every single time if I had left the engine running it would have been a 10 minute or more wait before I got power. That's on them. Having a mechanic wait on the phone for MCC to answer for 30 minutes, 100% on them. Gate availability is all theirs. About 2 dozen other stupid things you see nearly every single work day that is all on them and would be easy fixes.

frustratingly stupid revenue leakage, but it is what it is.