Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Denny;
It is important to debate the points here and on other forums. Many of the "Silent Majority" read this stuff to form an opinion. Arguing both side of an issue is good for the gander.
Carl; We are on the same page more or less.
A few pages back I did the math for a SWA parity rate on our 737's versus their. It was a 23 percent raise off of this year. Though the math is not perfect each percent is about 18 million and goes up as you compound the raises on each other.
Ergo:
To reach parity we would need a 414 million dollar increase per year to our cost. ( Probably 500 million as we do the math for are larger jets)
That equates to about 1.5% of our revenue this year. Doable IMO.
I also would not be surprised to see us morph to a 40 billion dollar a year corp as the world economy turns.
ACL,
I'm not trying to squash debate at all on this or any other forum. Debate is healthy and can lead to new ideas etc. For myself, I learned loooooong ago that, for the most part, I am not a very good debater. (I've got older siblings that are much better at it than me!!!
) I get emotionally involved (pi$$ed off) and when that happens I can't think straight!!
So I tend to avoid putting myself in a situation where this might happen. Hence my reluctance to enter debate. Plus I'm just not that smart!!!!
Some of the stuff I see you guys post on here just goes so far above my head it's not even funny!!
Denny