The low cost business model allows for employee turnover.
JQ's level of turnover is very low by LCC standards......
But still twice as high as it's parent company!
There-in lies the problem. We have a mindset as pilots that we can't have a long and prosperous career with an airline because management modelling doesn't suit.
I believe the $8 million was generated though self interest, not generosity. Are you suggesting that AIPA would have offerred this saving had redundancies not been looming?
Redundancies weren't on the horizon post Sept 11th & SAR's. Admittedly the airlines all over were hurting. But employee goodwill toward the company afforded them a pilot pay freeze. End result, back to back record profits!!
The hard bit will be workplace reform - getting staff to really believe that things have to change in order to compete.
With due respect KellyKelpie, it's the staff that keep the operation on the rails. That being the motivation of the tech crew concerned & the professionalism they afford the company. Engagement has slipped over the last few years, but it has been inversely propotional to that of the engaement levels of those at J*. As mainline crew saw their promotional opportunities dissapear into the sunset with an orange tail on it.