Delta Pilots End Era of Luxurious Pay

Chris wrote:
In that case they failed. Chrysler cars are junk and making the US a better
place would have meant getting rid of Chrysler.

US and canadian jobs would have been lost. many jobs. And the capacity would
have been filled by japanese and european cars. Remember that at the time,
all US carmakers were making absolutely crappy cars would lousy quality and
everyone was buying japanese. Chrysler may have been the worse of the bunch
with abobinations such as the k-car. But they did improve trememdounsly from
that very low low since then.

John Mazor wrote:
Cut capacity by 10% and you can cut labor, fuel, and fleet costs by 10%.
Hell, you can let go of gates, and probably other costs, too, like landing
fes and all those federal fees.

Another problem. Airlines don't want to let go of gates because they know that
they would go to competitors.

Airlines could dramantically cut gate usage with more efficient schedules and
would anso increase the number of revenu geretating hours for each aircraft.
But that will leave gates open for a competitor to use.

And in order to keep those gates, airlines have to make fake schedules that
make use of those gates, otherwise the airport authority might decide that
since the airline isn't making use of the gates, they woudl be re-assigned to
another airline.