Ways to generate revenue...

[bagchucker]

I agree with someone who said charge for non-revs. Too many of our employees jump a flight to have dinner in SFO.
Sure it's a great benifit, but people abuse it. Why add weight to the airplane just to eat and add weight to yourself.

Charge a nominal $30 charge. It won't hurt the employees, it'll help the bottom line and it'll keep people from just hopping around for no reason.

Or start them off at SA7P and for $20 dollars move up to an SA3P and for $20 more an SA2P.

You know how many people would leave the company if they implemented this?!?!
That would be an atrocity! We are already the lowest paid in the industry and to have to pay for our non-rev benefits on top of that?!?! Not happening.

In actuality, it helps the number crunchers to see a "full" plane even if the last handful of seats go to the non-revs. A full plane is desirable to those that crunch the numbers in a Tempe air-conditioned suite under Dougies office. There is no waste, harm, or otherwise to get a few employees on an airplane at no cost. Our old buddy pass system at HP was fair, but the one imposed on us NOW generates the company plenty of $$ for SA7P travel... that is why I usually have most of my passes left at the end of the year. I tell my friends to go onto Southwest.com and book advanced travel on their website and they can get a CONFIRMED seat for the same price as my SA7P offers them.

LEAVE THE NON-REV POLICY ALONE...

P.S. - I still like my coin operated lav idea... maybe put a bill accepting model and charge a buck per use!!! HA!

 

[sharktooth]

BS,

They employees sacrificed to keep this company in business, why dont you charge them for working there too?

That is too funny.

How about the company act as "coordinator" for overnight liaisons with employees and customers, a sort of "full service" carrier, taking a percentage of any transaction?

 

[InternationalShannon]

Two ideas:
1. Get rid of both the easties and westies and replace them
with northies and southies.
2. Chain Doug Parker to a mid-row seat in the back and charge
customers $50 extra to sit next to him while they taunt him.

I just choked on my dr pepper and some may have come out my nose. You should not drink dr pepper when reading this message board. note to self.

 

[phx___it]

That's the point of the $30 charge. It would keep the people that fly only because it's free off the planes. Too many fly on a whim.
Hopefully $30 won't kill anyone.

I did give the alternative to pay more for a higher priority. That way for someone that really needed to fly they could move up to SA2P for $40.

I really guess it's a bad idea to come to this forum and ask anything an employee can give back to the company.

 

[hp_fa]

I really guess it's a bad idea to come to this forum and ask anything an employee can give back to the company.

Part of the justification for paying, and accepting, lower wages is the ability to fly for free. Your proposal might be acceptable if the compnay chose to give back to the employees, like in the form of higher wages.

 

[InternationalShannon]

That's the point of the $30 charge. It would keep the people that fly only because it's free off the planes. Too many fly on a whim.
Hopefully $30 won't kill anyone.

I did give the alternative to pay more for a higher priority. That way for someone that really needed to fly they could move up to SA2P for $40.

I really guess it's a bad idea to come to this forum and ask anything an employee can give back to the company.

I don't think it's a bad idea, I would pay $40 to get on CLTPHXABQ because I don't have enough SA1s to get me there and back as many times as needed. I would also agree to like a $5 payroll deduction per flight if it kept us a standalone and out of financial troulbe -if- Parker also agreed to some kind of concession as well and -if- our profit sharing doesn't get less and less due to more additions. At this point we'd be lucky to even think about profit sharing, but I'm just saying....

 

[galley princess]

I believe that the post asked "Ways to generate Revenue"

One does not generate revenue by gouging one's employees or in fact, making money on them.

The Objective is to make money from customers.

I'll let you slide a bit because you've been working for Parket etal a bit too long and he doesn't really comprehend the whole "customer service" thing.

It is truly pathetic when employees think of ways to screw themselves. You might want to get out a bit more.

 

[Iheartflying]

That's the point of the $30 charge. It would keep the people that fly only because it's free off the planes. Too many fly on a whim.
Hopefully $30 won't kill anyone.

I did give the alternative to pay more for a higher priority. That way for someone that really needed to fly they could move up to SA2P for $40.

I really guess it's a bad idea to come to this forum and ask anything an employee can give back to the company.

Think about commuters and so what if some one want's to go to dinner in SFO?? It's a part of our benefits as being airline employees. We get paid less but we get "free" flight bennies. It's not as if we're kicking revenue pax off the plane to get to our destination. An empty seat is an empty seat.

 

[Zarah]

That's the point of the $30 charge. It would keep the people that fly only because it's free off the planes. Too many fly on a whim.
Hopefully $30 won't kill anyone.

I did give the alternative to pay more for a higher priority. That way for someone that really needed to fly they could move up to SA2P for $40.

I really guess it's a bad idea to come to this forum and ask anything an employee can give back to the company.

Now that sounds like management talking. Employees make to much money and do not pay enough for their benefits. We can save the company if we just find ways to take more money out of the pockets of the employees. It does not matter that some employees that work here qualify for food stamps, we can shake them down for a few extra bucks.

/roll eyes

Honestly, the company has come to the Employee Well enough.

 

[Res]

Charge the employee -- Have you lost it ...?


What a joke -- Did u take the same paycut as the rest of us???? -- Do you know that a newbees starting rate is somewhere arround $9.00 hr.

Maybe you can afford it -- but it would just make most of the employees hostile.

 

[Runwaysticker]

Charge the employee -- Have you lost it ...?


What a joke -- Did u take the same paycut as the rest of us???? -- Do you know that a newbees starting rate is somewhere arround $9.00 hr.

Maybe you can afford it -- but it would just make most of the employees hostile.

Thats got to be the most stupid idea I have herd on this post........ :down:

 

[700UW]

I really guess it's a bad idea to come to this forum and ask anything an employee can give back to the company.

I guess you havent been here too long?

The east employees have given billions in concessions since 2002 including the loss of all their pensions, retiree healthcare, etc...

And the west have enjoyed the lowest wages in the industry for years.

Do a bit of research before you post.

Does Doug pay to fly?

NOPE!

 

[InternationalShannon]

Maybe we could sell the buy on board meals at the gate and provide the customers with a coupon or reciept that the FA would exchange for the meal. Some pax can't get one because they simply forgot to bring cash on board.

 

[CGAft]

I guess you havent been here too long?

The east employees have given billions in concessions since 2002 including the loss of all their pensions, retiree healthcare, etc...

And the west have enjoyed the lowest wages in the industry for years.

Do a bit of research before you post.

Does Doug pay to fly?

NOPE!

Charge the Non Revs?? There are two things that employees have...flight for free IF A SEAT A SEAT IS AVAILABLE and their SENIORITY. Its bad enough that retirees are put below active employees and that my wife and kids fly without my seniority when im not with them. I travel all the time bucause I have too and NON REVING is last on my plate come vacation time. If the idoitic suggestion of charging were to come true.........id assume the writer would suggest a recruiting office somewhere in Mexico. I wonder if I could sell my seniority?? 23 years!! But the buyers couldnt near afford it hehe.

 

[phx___it]

We charge $25 for the second bag because weight costs fuel. We charge for overweight bags because weight costs money.