Originally Posted by
the drake
But if the pilots don't show up I'm guessing the revenue is going to have to be refunded because no one is going to go anywhere.
Just like if mechanics don't show up, not enough ramp personel show up, not enough dispatchers show up, not enough gate agents show up, etc. NONE of said employees generate that revenue. The SLF simply gets rebooked, accommodated, or delayed. All labor does is have control over revenue loss once it's been ALREADY been obtained.
Originally Posted by
bogeydriver
Exactly. We generate revenue to a much greater extent than any other employee. We are the only ones with the ability to affect the profit, once the brakes are released, with the possible exception of Dispatch.
See above, we don't "generate" anything, only control it. And in the example I used for MX, if a bunch of mechanics called in sick the night before when an airplane may have do for a check and said check was not completed, AND a replacement aircraft was not found, then what? Seems as if the MX sided of the house had a pretty good say in revenue loss, even though they did nothing to "generate" it.