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NP! Glad to see another who agrees a mans best friends are his Rotty's!!dueguard1 said:Hey Rottweiler ..........................................let's Swap Avatar's Sometime...................what Da Ya Think?????
If these airlines could shrink management and streamline things upstairs, they could probably afford to bring pilot salaries back up too.habitual pilot said:Don't underestimate the STILL prevalent over management existing at nearly all the legacy carriers. AA still hase roughly 45 VP's. I have no idea what 45 VP's are needed to accomplish. Evidently, it has something to do with the light bulb question.
Until these airlines can shrink mgmt, I'm firmly against pay cuts for the low level workers. Mgmt in this industry needs to start leading the way. They need to take pay cuts first, then go to labor if necessary (which you know it would be). In nearly all of the latest legacy airline concession packages, mgmt has taken pay cuts only after the unionized employees call them on it. Then all of a sudden you see a 5% cut for VPs and 10% from higher ups. I'm not seeing the same amount of commitment and losing faith in this industry's leadership.
bvt1151 said:Every airline has to pay the same in fuel (except maybe for SWA with their lucrative hedges) which means all of the industry is on an even keel.Not necessarily. Airlines have different levels of fuel hedging, starting with 0 and on up, and their fuel might be hedged at different prices. Also, not all aircraft burn the same amount of fuel per ASM and even the same type and model aircraft will have different fuel burn per ASM depending on stage length. Put in a difference in the price of fuel at different airports and the fact that some airlines have their fuel purchased for them by their mainline partner and you ultimately end up with various degrees of exposure to rising fuel costs depending on your hedge, airframe, stage length, points of purchase and whether or not your fuel is purchased by others for you.
That's not to say that there isn't also an issue of over capacity, but the rise in fuel costs has had a major effect on the bottom line of most carriers and that effect can vary.