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It is difficult to change the direction of this huge ball rolling down hill.
Some years back, I had a 135 operation within a public company. The employees could not figure out why I was so tight about expenses because "the company has plenty of money." I was constantly explaining that they got that way because they did not tolerate losing operations. If we did not make money, the operation would be shuttered.
United has a bunch of people who seem to think that the point of that story does not apply. It has money and should keep going and paying until there is no more. Meanwhile, a strategy to make profits seems elusive as is the leadership to get there.
For every minute that it takes to get going forward, it will take two minutes to get 30 seconds back. They need to find where they are strong, international, Chicago, etc and try to build back from there.
This is unfortunately not the time to be one of the high cost airlines.
It is difficult to change the direction of this huge ball rolling down hill.
Some years back, I had a 135 operation within a public company. The employees could not figure out why I was so tight about expenses because "the company has plenty of money." I was constantly explaining that they got that way because they did not tolerate losing operations. If we did not make money, the operation would be shuttered.
United has a bunch of people who seem to think that the point of that story does not apply. It has money and should keep going and paying until there is no more. Meanwhile, a strategy to make profits seems elusive as is the leadership to get there.
For every minute that it takes to get going forward, it will take two minutes to get 30 seconds back. They need to find where they are strong, international, Chicago, etc and try to build back from there.
This is unfortunately not the time to be one of the high cost airlines.
