Well, if the percentage of fuel rises in the TOC, some other percentage will go down. So there’s no change in OC of manpower, simply the relation changed.
Not quite so simple. Run a ratio of % employee costs to % fuel costs over the past 5 years and see what ratio you come up with. Lowest annual employee cost:fuel cost by a significant margin.
Fuel costs they cannot control; employee costs they can (no union) and have done so significantly on a cost relative basis over the past 5 years ........ obviously without any regard for the long term health, family well-being or career prospects of anyone (save a few office wogs) in the pilot group.
It is what it is but statistically it merely reiterates how we have been backed into a corner over the past 5 years.