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.
Any idea what they were prior to PBS, when we had a retirement, better health plan, and C2K rates? THAT is a number dalpa does not want us to know because of the ensuing riot. I'm betting that number would water your eyes, and on a comparative basis even AFTER the merger, I'd be willing to bet today's pilot costs are less than 10 cents on the dollar to what they were at C2K. JMHO. I'd LOVE to be proved wrong.