The evil genius comment was a joke. I don't think Bryan is either evil or a genius. But I'm not persuaded that he is failing at his job, by the standards against which his boss judges him. I don't know why you guys keep taking your own unhappiness with the company as evidence that Bryan is failing at his job. This is not about the employees. Your happiness is way down on his list of issues. Stop taking this stuff personally. It's business.
ATRDriver, I'm not saying there aren't places to save money. The waste can be appalling. But the bottom line this past quarter says a lot about how the company is doing. As for the bags, your numbers are just plain wrong. ASA mishandles (delayed, lost, damaged, etc.) between 10,000 and 20,000 bags per month. It averaged around 17 per 1000 passengers for the first 6 months of this year (less than 1 per flight). If the average cost to forward a bag is $30 (it's probably half that), and all mishandles were delays that needed to be forwarded, the system-wide monthly cost is at most $600,000. That's a shocking amount of money, but I don't believe that at tenth of that is getting spent at CSG.
It's embarrassing to have by far the worst baggage handling record of any major airline in the US, but it is not clear that it is costing us customers, esp. since the only real customer is Delta and our continued contract with them is apparently not contingent upon our baggage numbers. Besides it's all about the money. It wouldn't surprise me if our fee for departure contract didn't pass along the cost of baggage mishandles back to the mainline.
Ohplease, I almost said in my previous post that I agreed with you on this point, but I wouldn’t want that to be misinterpreted. I draw some very different conclusions about what it means for the company's employees. The fact that Bryan is not the fool that some of the people on this board take him to be, does not mean that he is looking out for our interests as employees, or that the pilots should accede to his wishes. ASA was the most profitable regional in the industry last quarter, and, although there are risks and challenges ahead, it seems to me like the pilots are negotiating from a position of relative strength, if they are able to recognize it.
ATRDriver, I'm not saying there aren't places to save money. The waste can be appalling. But the bottom line this past quarter says a lot about how the company is doing. As for the bags, your numbers are just plain wrong. ASA mishandles (delayed, lost, damaged, etc.) between 10,000 and 20,000 bags per month. It averaged around 17 per 1000 passengers for the first 6 months of this year (less than 1 per flight). If the average cost to forward a bag is $30 (it's probably half that), and all mishandles were delays that needed to be forwarded, the system-wide monthly cost is at most $600,000. That's a shocking amount of money, but I don't believe that at tenth of that is getting spent at CSG.
It's embarrassing to have by far the worst baggage handling record of any major airline in the US, but it is not clear that it is costing us customers, esp. since the only real customer is Delta and our continued contract with them is apparently not contingent upon our baggage numbers. Besides it's all about the money. It wouldn't surprise me if our fee for departure contract didn't pass along the cost of baggage mishandles back to the mainline.
Ohplease, I almost said in my previous post that I agreed with you on this point, but I wouldn’t want that to be misinterpreted. I draw some very different conclusions about what it means for the company's employees. The fact that Bryan is not the fool that some of the people on this board take him to be, does not mean that he is looking out for our interests as employees, or that the pilots should accede to his wishes. ASA was the most profitable regional in the industry last quarter, and, although there are risks and challenges ahead, it seems to me like the pilots are negotiating from a position of relative strength, if they are able to recognize it.
You are such an @SSCLOWN! Try to take BL D!ck out of your mouth for atleast a minute!
