Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Carl at about 2.5 billion a year our costs are about 9% of the revenue intake a year. That is in today's environment. I do not have the data in front of me to state what they were in 2004, but suffice to say they were probably a lot higher.
Huge, No, but a fairly fixed cost over the life of a contract.It was not what put us there. I agree with that, it was just the last big expense that the current leadership signed on to before the dam broke.
Our biggest problem IMO is that we as pilots and type A ppl think we play a bigger role at time than we do. That is both good and bad.
ACL,
We're not talking about the entire pilot cost. We're talking about the INCREASE required to bring wages to above Southwest - thus making us industry leading. Not the total pilot payroll, the increase. And THAT number is relatively small. Yet we still have a ton of posters here crying that we just can't do it.
My sincere hope is that these guys aren't really pilots, but some cubicle inhabitant in ATL.
Carl