@ chairwrecker- I too, agree that PAL should have a higher employee:aircraft ratiothan 5J. The thing is, as you stated earlier, we're all confused on where it wants to go and how it wants to market itself.
Does it go all-out vs 5J with AirPhil as its LCC partner and remain an aggressive participant in the domestic/regional market? Does it become a niche player and concentrate on the higher yield/margin routes? Does it want to remain the dominant regional/international carrier from RP (and how?) Do you continue deploy A330s/744/777s to 1-1.5 hr flights or do you leave that to the 320s? Or do you give almost all your 320s/319s to AirPhil (as rumored from LTP mechanics) and just fly the widebodies?
Does it even have a choice in the matter or is it just letting inertia take its course?
That's the beauty of Southwest Airlines philosphy. Besides the wonderful marketing promos of Herb Kelleher and his successors and their brilliant fuel hedging strategies, they have maintained for 30 years that they will never fly sectors longer than 4 hours. Because anything longer, the wide-bodies start to become more efficient.
