Well
Col., after your last post above, I suggest that you delete the entire thread titled,
"Erosion of Pay and conditions - what are we doing about it" - as you have effectively answered it yourself!
And
OverRun has aptly demonstrated why beancounters are effectively screwing every airline they are allowed to get their hands on!
The mindset of accountants working for airlines appears to be capable of ONLY treating an airline as another transport business, and hence they work in miles or kms as the basis for their calculations of cost structure, as if the aircraft were a taxi, truck, or bus.
Is it any wonder that so many companies are being
sent to the wall BECAUSE of this ignorance.
As an example,
OverRun, fewer miles (achieved by track shortening, as is sometimes offered by ATC) may NOT necessarily result in a cost saving in aircraft operation (depending upon the decision of the pilots) - and as a matter of fact may even INCREASE costs. However to people who think of aircraft as simply another form of transportation, this concept is probably quite inconceivable.
