Originally Posted by
Herewegoagain
I don’t have to ask. I flew for two of them. I know how it works. I believe you’re not comprehending what I’m saying. I’m not defending anything frontier does from a management perspective. I think we could be great if they’d change how they do things. I hope they do. Do what you can within your scope as a pilot to help this place be profitable. We won’t get more money until it is. Go about your life. Hope for record profits and a subsequent record breaking contract. Now back to your brilliant pilot CEO guidance of “just raise ticket prices”. I doubt they’ve thought of that.
Just so we're on the same page. OF COURSE, every little bit helps. No one is denying that. The argument here is JUST HOW MUCH. Telling pilots to SE taxi, as you mentioned, saves 400 lbs per flight. Meanwhile, thousands of lbs more are wasted waiting for gates (w/ only that singe engine running) because of the operation. It's like tryin to patch a hole in a bucket full of water with bubble gum.
Again, go back and look at SWA in the 70s vs now. They used to have $19 tickets (hundreds less than all other airlines). Now, their ticket prices are NOT CHEAP. Eventually, the only way to sustained profits is offering a better and better product (that improves over time) and charging more for that product. It's not brilliant pilot CEO guidance, it's Business 101. Every single industry (food, cars, furniture, everything). No one is suggesting JUST charging more tomorrow, there's a whole lot that comes before that to justify the increase.
C'mon now bro, you're too smart to not know how any of this works...