Originally Posted by
NWA320pilot
Have to disagree here....... DAL can afford to increase our pay rates to pre BK rates and even adjust for inflation. I did the math a few years ago but the gist of it was they would need to increase ticket prices by about $1.60 an hour of flight per pax on a fully loaded aircraft. So based on this a 5 hour coast to coast would need an increase of about $8 per ticket to cover the increase, not too much in my opinion.
Do you actually think that the Marketing guys leave money on the table when they set fares for routes? Do you really believe that if they could increase fares by $8 they don't because of some altruistic motivation?
$8 bucks higher could put you on the second or third page of expedia.com. Kinda like taxes, an increase in fares may cause a reduction in revenue. Without the competition following the increase, the pioneer would be left hanging.
Here's hoping that Ucal gets a new contract with significant progress before we start negotiating.