LOL--yep, +2 Traf.
Nice try there, coffee. Maybe y'all could use a few better spin doctors and staff writers.
It's amazing that a manager of an airline would let it get to the point that when a large percentage of its pilots simply executes their contract--no more, no less--that it could 'cripple' the organization. Sounds like a resource problem to me.
And if the NEEDED someones to go above and beyond (which they obviously do), I'd be pretty keen to keep them happy and make peace in times of conflict.
This is how incentive based functional places work btw. And for the others, if it's going to hit problems with a stick, it'd better have a contract (and manning) it can live with when things go south. Which it obviously doesn't.
It's TRIED the stick approach over the last few years. It's TRIED its 'continuous reserve' (aka crisis management) rostering approach -- all miserable failures. Now it's reaping the results and is running scared. Be interesting to see the denouement.
Now there ARE ways out (maybe). These have been well published and are well known over the last several years. They AIN'T done by cancelling things, slashing and burning, and further alienating the very people you NEED to run the place.
Yup, ya need people. And happy people. And ya gotta invest in them and keep them happy. The treating people like coal don't work.
And ya are going to have to admit you were wrong and do a few (real) things to actually fix stuff around here.
For most of us normal humans, admitting mistakes (and doing what we can to fix them) is actually not that big of a deal. It's part of being a person and living life. Might want to give it a try.
FWIW no idea what fraction of stock is publicly traded. If it's tiny (and the block masters are happy with the way things are going) then probably no worries for anyone 'in charge'. But there are many ways to play the hostile takeover game. The hi-bid leveraging assets a company has on hand is only ONE way; it works in the other direction too. Being stuck somewheres in the upper managerial levels during this isn't a very good place to be in terms of job security.
Last edited by Shep69; 12th Nov 2017 at 17:57.