Good luck and well done on getting the ball rolling.
Imagine for a second that you are an executive at a large business…..your whole purpose is to minimise expenses and maximise profits. That’s what you get paid to do and that’s what you get judged on. If your large business is an Airline you need to minimise the expense of fuel ( try some smart hedging and comms to pilots about how much they order, create an app that shows pilots where they sit compared to their peers etc),you also need to minimise the expense of labour, ( try divide and conquer, a ‘wages policy’ , dragging out negotiations etc). Just do your best to minimise the cost, but at the end of the day if your hedging was off, or the Saudi’s restrict supply, that doesn’t mean you stop buying fuel, just that it was a tough day at the office. Same same with labour. The execs know exactly how much other industries( healthcare, education, IT etc) are increasing salaries by, they know it’s coming for them too and that it is just a cost of doing business. Just a tough day at the office for them.
Don’t feel too bad for them though, crack into it
