and what you refuse to acknowledge is that AA's revenue performance is the worst of the big 4.
why do you think I repeatedly bring it up?
because it is intimately tied to what they can pay employees.
Not only does the increased competition affect AA's revenue performance but it also affects what they can pay their employees.
For years, people here have refused to acknowledge that AA has the greatest revenue threat to its financials of any airline other than AS. and yet for several quarters now after this merger that was supposed to produce such great network synergies, AA's revenue performance has been far below the rest of its peers.
AA SIMPLY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PAY ITS PEOPLE WHAT IT CANNOT GET IN INCREASED REVENUE.
700UW said:
And thats not counting other compensation like benefits, pension etc are also broken down on the MIT Airline Data Project.
no duh.
that's why I included them....
Kev3188 said:
Wow. Those are very different numbers from what was posted earlier....
and if Kev was half as diligent in looking at the spreadsheet, he would see that there is a section entitled benefits.. and there is a separate category for FAs.
add the two numbers up and tell me if the total of AA FA salary and benefits compared to DL salary and benefits is not about 1.4-1.5%.
now tell me how many FAs that DL has hired and how many FAs that AA has hired and tell me how AA could come close to being higher paid when they have hired a fraction of the new hire FAs that DL has.
700UW said:
Notice how he left out WN Ramp, Cargo and Passenger Service?
$56,776 there is why, they make more than anyone, including DL and WN is unionized.
no, I didn't leave out the absolute numbers. no one has any doubt that WN employees are the highest compensated employees.
no one also is unaware that WN's labor negotiation process is at a complete standstill because Gary Kelly is not signing another contract that adds enormous labor costs.
did you notice that WN's labor costs as a result of the merger with FL jumped 10% in the last year as FL employees were brought up to WN scales?
he can't and won't do that again.
The difference in WN CASM with DL is less than the difference between DL and UA.
DL continues to increase its employee pay at a rate of around 10% PER YEAR> that is unprecedented in the airline industry and unmatched by any other airline right now.
WN isn't a point of comparison for total salaries - but they are getting NOTHING of value added to their contracts.
yoyodyne said:
Yeah, for now. Once DP gets the AA merger all settled in, he'll take the company in the red, and then take a trip down the US playbook, and put you guys thru the ringer twice...
Then see how much more you have then...
and the sad thing is that Parker has so convinced so many of this employees that he will increase the gravy train that he rolled out for one reason and one reason only and that is to get the merger done, and get a fat paycheck in his pocket.
the economic fundamentals of the AA/US merger are not there. AA's revenue performance shows it.
He will have no choice but to get serious about cutting costs because the short-term drop in fuel prices has only provided a short-term window to avoid dealing with the problem of AA's bloated and increasingly costly workforce relative to its peers and the level of revenue that AA produces relative ot its peers.
