We've sold our boats, taken paycuts, downsized our houses, etc...

The sh*tty management and now they have the balls to try and fix it at your expense.

 

More like bad cop, worse cop...

 

Who are the five jack@sses who voted for concessions in the poll? There ought to be a public roll call roster.

 

Let me summarize this letter:

We screwed up in negotiating our contracts by signing agreements that were too cheap; this happened because we didn't do our due diligence or have the skill to correctly assess our costs.

We screwed up integrating our airlines because we didn't properly foresee, or have the skill to properly foresee, the complexity involved, nor did we have the skill to make up for this shortcoming.

We screwed up in our assessment of how to "right-size" the management team; i.e., we allowed too many overpriced management types to stay on board even though they were not needed.

In essence, I failed miserably at my job as CEO. I now ask you, the labor groups, to bail us out. I've tried desperately to get some extra revenue from Delta and United. United was reasonable but Delta, being the pricks that they are and seeing an opportunity to keep their foot on the collective throats of their regional partners, refused.

Now, despite this, I'm blaming you, the pilots, for not accepting drastic reductions to your already absurdly low pay and benefits. This is all your fault. And now, we are going to make sure you get it even worse. But I'm going to try to pay myself more.

Yours always,
Mr. Douche-nozzle.

 

"A new pilot contract that added millions of payroll dollars to ourday-to-day operating expenses but weren’t scheduled to be reimbursed formore than a year after the new contract went into place·"

Leave it to management to complain about pilots making $25k/year.

 

The union is really representing the lifers as its ran by them. We need to shut this place down if only to try to raise the bar to prevent a career of this BS. Let it burn. Vote NO on anything and run the company into the ground.

 

When United tried to force crap contracts on ACA and Air Wis nobody took pay cuts and nobody got raises. I know what happened to ACA but at least KS backed his people and said he wouldn't accept a subpar contract.
In this case we accepted subpar contacts and the our leaders got massive pay increases and then turn around "yet again" and say its employees are over paid.
I'm stunned by this latest letter.
I agree it's time to shut this place down.
In 2012 with gas prices at 4+ $ a gallon your really gonna say you need someone making 30K a year to take a cut while you just got a 200K raise is inhuman.
STFD.

 

A business model that cannot afford to pay it's labor industry average wages is no longer a viable business model. This place is (and was) truly managed by some of the most inept individuals in the industry. Let it burn, it doesn't deserve to exist anymore.

 

He basically said give it up or ill have the courts take it from you. I say screw this place. You know what really grinds my gears, that fact that management can fail at their jobs and we are held responsible. I would rather see this place burn to the ground before I give any type of concession.

 

Saw on CNBC (was on when I was in the gym) a graph showing employee productivity vs pay. It was astounding. Productivity was substantially up while pay was the inverse. Sad state of where we are heading. The point was the upper class was becoming extreme upper class while the middle class is vanishing.