Southwest posts loss on weak demand

[MILPILOT17]

Hey, where's bravodush with the spin on all of this?

He's behind you! Don't you feel it? You're so easy!

 

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Sadly, it's not what we are worth, it's about supply and demand. As long as the market has guys like instructor dooshe who are willing to do it for less, what's the incentive to pay more?

Until they can't fill pilot seats, I doubt pilots will have the leverage they once enjoyed under a regulated industry. Think it's bad now? MPL and cabotage will make all of this look like a picnic in the park.

Another FI economist. There are more pilots and planes now than before 9/11- the problem is that half of them are disenfranchised with no vote on their own destiny- while major airline pilots continue to vote to outsource jobs while furloughing their own. Seniority compromises the free hand of labor competition. Mgmt knows we'd cut off our left nut before we start completely over at the bottom at another company- and industry wide- they use that to cut our wages, steal our pensions, and most importantly- divide us- literally.
Supply and demand has very little to do with it. Regional airlines had to drop minimums over and over and over in order to find pilots over the past decade- it never once helped wage increases. It's about leverage- and voting in people that actually believe in the economic value of a prosperous middle class.
You either believe in the middle class or you don't. It's that simple. Too many pilots have voted their career away for dumb and selfish reasons -