US Airline Labor Says Cyclical; Reality Says Secular

[cybourg10]

“if the revenue-to-GDP ratio had stayed where it was pre-2001, the airlines would have raked in an additional $27 billion in revenue in the year ended in March.”

That is an amazing statistic and one giant reason the legacies have taken such a huge hit in pay and quality of life. Raise the GD fares!

 

[jonjuan]

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That is an amazing statistic and one giant reason the legacies have taken such a huge hit in pay and quality of life. Raise the GD fares!

They can't.

 

[Ex737Driver]

They can't.

Because.........?

 

[jonjuan]

Because.........?

Clients won't pay it. Try it and see what happens. If they raise, they'll push more revenue to JBLU, WN, AAI, and Song.

 

[LawReview]

Anyone consider he might be right?

 

[bluechunks]

Anyone consider he might be right?

Nope.

He is right only in the sense that the general economics have changed, he is very wrong in his belief that the pilots are the primary ones to shoulder the responsibility. If a fundamental change has occurred, and it probably has, where are all the other cost re-alignments? After all, pilot expenses are only a fraction of total operating costs for any airline.

It's all about money and his solution to the problem is focused only in one direction: not his.

I'd suggest that in the past 10 years, or at least since 9/11, pilots have experienced a greater share of the cuts than the constituencies that he is paid to represent. This is all an argument about money. Period.

 

[Remington]

screwed up huh?