Gee, and no mention in that article of the massive fuel hedge and currency hedge losses that the business managers were responsible for. Just what is the cost benefit analysis for their expensive salaries, allowances, and bonuses?
It's those damn pilots! Only 14% of the workforce yet they account for half of the workforce costs! So what is our
PR department suggesting when they release such misleading statistics to the press? That as only 14% of the workforce pilots should account for 14% of the workforce cost? Pilots should be paid a clerks salary?
Years and years of training, professional skill, qualifications, credentials, etc are just what every employee brings to the office cubicle. I suppose it's just logical that being responsible for 400 people, flying them in a made made aluminum tube, seven miles above the earth, at speeds approaching the speed of sound...is not worth more than a clerks salary???
It's sad, but that corrosive line of thinking explains why we are where we are....