JetPilot500 said:Labor is not the only problem.
But if UAL, for example, could cut an average of $50k per pilot per year, that would equate to $500 Million (10,000 pilots) saved per year...make some cuts with other labor groups and guess what, now you're really saving some money.
$500 Million is no chump change!
A $50,000 savings per pilot equates to about a $35,000 change in salary. So, a pilot making $185,000 now makes $150,000 after the change...BIG DEAL!
JetPilot500
Would you listen to yourself for a moment? You are saying that losing $35,000 is no "BIG DEALl" How would you like it if your employer told you that he was going to give you a 25% pay cut because profits had dropped and he didn't want to reduce his own salary or go about the trouble of re-thinking his business model that is so obviously flawed? That's what we're talking about here! Pilot's salaries did not cause these problems, so why should they be cut to solve the problems? The root cause of the problem needs to be addressed. You admit in your post that labor is not the cause of the problem, but you want them to give up their hard earned money to fix it. There is no logic in that.