Originally Posted by
CurtainTwitcher
The modern airline management doctrine, neither recognises nor counts what is not tangible and cannot be monetised.
Consequently, their focus on unit cost fails to account for what those like Southwest that holistically embrace the reality that airlines are a dynamic team sport.
Organised labour does not need to withdraw their labour (which incidentally is incredibly hard to do) what it needs to simply do is stop enabling the model to sustain itself.
- Whether it is using one's own internet to update the 'manuals', arriving early for terminal congestion (which is simply extending a TOD), using a personal cell phone to make company calls, simply stopping these things COSTS the company and suddenly becomes tangible.
What they haven't bothered counting at Ryan air as they ignored it, due perceived
unlimited supply and power asymmetry over employees, will continue to be a costly exercise as the impact begins to accumulate financially.
Each business model has a shelf life. Architects of the modern aggressive and adversarial model have handsomely profited for decades.
With 17% less operation, RYR is finding that not only Operating Revenue is falling but the costs of cancelled operations and compensation will quickly outstrip any perceived gain from persevering with a business model that is time expired led by an idiot who is pass his use by date.
The big question for the industry and long suffering staff is will Ryan air change?