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.
If management could raise prices $8 per ticket today, why wouldn't they do it?
They would. In a heartbeat. Not to line our pockets, but to line theirs.
The fact that they haven't means the competitive market we operate in can't support the increase (obviously unless the majority of carriers/asm's increase as well). We don't live in a vacuum.
Your math may or may not be correct, I don't know. But your logic is fallacious. I want more probably more than you do, as I have a shorter time left here. Your "just raise fares" argument doesn't hold water.