Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
It is simply an incorrect premise Bar. You place far too much emphasis on pilot cost in regards to the profit equation. Other posts have illustrated how small a fare increase would be required to return us to Contract 2000.
Please don't buy into the BS that the rates at DAL, UAL, and to a smaller extent NWA, had anything to do with their troubles. They didn't. But management would love for you and everyone to continue believing that.
Carl
Carl,
I do not disagree with your premise that "pilots don't buy airplanes." But you can't compare the status quo with a couple of bucks per ticket. A better comparison is with our dysfunctional neighbor only 240 miles East in Charlotte.
Right now we are not making money. We need to make money .. lots of it .. to service our debt and equip for the future. Some don't care about that, some figure they will be out of here in a couple of years and just want to take what they can before they go.
If US Air and American ever get to our Contract 2000, THEN we can talk about C2K+30. Until then such talk is a useless waste of chest beating that would be better served impressing female Orangutans.
It is not a linear equation. Those who do this stuff for a living are fighting penny by penny for listings at the top of search engines and trying to collect revenues on ancillaries. It is not the way we would run an airline but thank goodness we are not tasked with that job.