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American Airlines to transfer at least 50 jets
American Airlines Group Inc. plans to move at least 50 jets from its Envoy Air unit to other regional carriers, saying that it can’t keep enough pilots to fly the airplanes. (www.dallasnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I personally don't think thee is that much difference % wise in an ATP and where you are at; best I remember you were up there at one time. At any rate, when the airlines were deregulated in 1979, you had a capital intensive business trying to figure out how to survive. Some didn't. We saw it in rail and trucking in the years to follow. It has taken close to 30 years for the airlines to get anywhere close to right side up and figure out their cost structure. it is not the hallowed ground that it once was, for pax or pilot. As a result of what they have done or not done, there has been growth in the private sector ala part 91 and 135. Lot's of companies have decided they are prosperous enough to go that route. It has created opportunities and also done away with some but one thing is certain; it won't go back to where it was, and it is what it is.
This is what happens when airline tickets are sold on the basis of which one costs one dollar less than the other. We complain about how everything sucks but we've chosen to live inside Wal-Mart. 'Merica.
Well, they wouldn't accept the contract and couldn't be sold. Douggie boy will just give them away to nothing and take a tax write off, and probably come out for the better on it. Envoy will lose. Sad, as there are a bunch of good people down there. Can't blame others for talking low wages here. Regional airlines are low enough anyway but methinks the Envoy offer had them beat. All that said, I doubt ALPA really had their interests at heart.
Doug Parker party of one to the chopping block
maybe a real shortage of pilots un-willing to work for peanuts
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But I do know there was a time when airlines actually were legit businesses - meaning - they charged for a seat what it actually costs to provide that seat. Seems these days most so called "airlines" coast along on taxpayer subsidies, filing bankruptcy every few years to "stiff" their employees and suppliers. Sad fact is, some young folk THINK it would be so great to be an ATP they would probably PAY the airlines to let em sit up front.
Somehow, the public has gotten it into its head that there is some kind of RIGHT to "cheap" airline fares. I am not clear how or when that got going - but it seems to bbe a part of the problem of the airline business today. There does seem to be a solution looming over the horizon - young people today don't seem to want to hang around airports doing odd jobs to get flight time. At some point in time, the airlines are going to HAVE to pay a decent wage - seat costs will go up - they will start providing a decent service to theur customers - so the situation MAY be self-correcting in the future.
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