Aviation week LCC article southwest spirit

[Beetle007]

FYI: We still have people picking up open time...management thanks the turncoats.

Would you rather the company cancel flights or be overstaffed?

I don't pick up open time because I am lazy..but I thank the pilots who are helping the company from going out of business.

 

[Mike man]

Would you rather the company cancel flights or be overstaffed?

I don't pick up open time because I am lazy..but I thank the pilots who are helping the company from going out of business.

WOW! Let us all thank the pilots who are picking up open time at 150% or who are accepting JA's at 200% while we have folks on the street making 0%...from the bottom of my heart thank you for doing that...just try not to get too much blood on your knives when you are twisting it around making the cut bigger.

 

[Beetle007]

People picking up open time has two impacts:
1. It increases efficiency which allows the company to hopefully return to profitability.
2. It decreases the staffing model which results in a lower percentage of pilots to block hours.

Communists and socialists want to increase jobs at the expense of efficiency. However, the result of inefficiency is ironically less jobs. So, people not picking up open time results in more furloughs over the longterm.

The capitalist theory is that increased efficiency will result in profitability and more jobs over the long run. So, people picking up open time will help bring back the furloughed pilots over the longterm.

However, Americans need short term gratification, and it is much easier to blame pilots for picking up open time rather than the reality of economics

 

[regionalcap]

People who pick up open time while guys are furlough are only looking out for themselves. All they care about is getting a bigger check for the month. Period.

 

[Beetle007]

That is one of the basic principles of capitalism in Fred Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

Individual self-interest often has the unintended consequence of benefiting everyone in the long run. (i.e., higher efficiency, and goods focused on needs)

 

[Propsync]

Would you rather the company cancel flights or be overstaffed?

I don't pick up open time because I am lazy..but I thank the pilots who are helping the company from going out of business.

Wow, stunned beyond words.I don't know where to begin, so I'll give at least the next two pages of this thread for everyone else to light you up like a Christmas tree.

 

[Beetle007]

so I'll give at least the next two pages of this thread for everyone else to light you up like a Christmas tree.

The accuracy of a statement is not judged by its popularity.

 

[enigma]

I predict that Beetle will live long and prosper. He's intelligent, educated, thoughful and confident enough in his position to engage others in a debate. The rest of you will be sitting around welcoming people to Home Depot while Beetle is writing the next chapter of the American dream.

Yes, I agree with Beetle. Featherbedding does not increase employement. In the long term, featherbedding only causes a weak employer.

One more thing, featherbedding is a huge reason that employers look at unions as opponents instead if partners. If you want to look at a company that looks at unions as partners, look no further than SWA.

 

[Mike man]

If you want to look at a company that looks at unions as partners, look no further than SWA.

Every airline manager should have that burned into his/her eyeballs.

 

[greenlight]

That is one of the basic principles of capitalism in Fred Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

Individual self-interest often has the unintended consequence of benefiting everyone in the long run. (i.e., higher efficiency, and goods focused on needs)

I usually don't do this but I think you mean Adam Smith. A 18th century philosopher who wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Fred Smith founded a purple cargo airline. He knows a lot about economics too.

Cheers