Originally Posted by
johnpeace
Because the company I work for already has an unsustainable business model based on how much it costs them vs. how much their customer(s) compensate them.
ASA is losing money.
Yah, they can cut costs elsewhere in the operation to bring costs in line with earnings...but there's only so much more expensive the labor can get before it becomes too expensive for the business model to work.
Originally Posted by
blastoff
The company (New ASA) is over twice as big as it was this time last year. The Holding Company (Skywest, Inc.) is the most profitable in the industry. They can afford to give us raises that don't even keep up with inflation going back to 2004. Economies of scale. There is a reason they went after XJT not once, but twice. They will make money.
Somehow ASA guys think asking for reasonable contract gains is "Burning it Down." You guys have played the "miser" angle for so long, you forgot what it looks like to act like a normal pilot group.
Yep, pretty much.
But I gotta ask a question of SOME of our Atlanta headquartered brothers. Did those few forget, or flat out not pay attention that management ALREADY screwed themselves when this whole ASA-XJT thing went through? The point about them saving 70-80 million dollars in "synergies" when the deal is done due to the elimination of redundancies as well as savings from the economy of scale created with the "super regional"
In other words, if they want to use the fear grenade of "hey pilots, we can't remain cost competitive and need to keep our costs in line otherwise we'll lose flying" blah blah blah simply isn't a valid stance.