I have just terminated the leases on a lot of aircraft so that I have many redundant pilot groups. I have found that I can reduce their weekly wages to 50% of the default wage setting, and it will be obvious that the mood of these pilots will become very low as a result. However, none of these pilots will actually be flying any flights, so will their very low mood effect the overall mood of my entire airline ???
you can't control the mood of a group of pilots...
let's say you have 50 B737 pilots and 25 of them are redundant. if you set the B737 pilot salary to the lowest, the whole group (50) of B737 pilots will be affected.
but, if you have 50 B737 pilots and 50 A320 pilots, and the whole group of A320 pilots are redundant. if you set the A320 pilot salary to the lowest, it will only affect the A320 pilots but not the B737 pilots.
but then, why don't you fire the redundant pilots?
Firing the pilots costs 12 weeks worth of their wages, and I have A LOT of redundant pilots right now as well as other staff, so it would just be too expensive. As long as I keep growing at a healthy rate, in 12 weeks time I could easily have all my staff ‘active’ again !!!
Miles…you and I seem to have many of the exact same problems. My difficulties all started about 1 or 2 months ago. profit, load factors, revenue per flight are all falling precipitously and I don’t have time to try to adjust the fares on 1500 flights. I believe I saw on another post elsewhere that you used the word tedious to describe this problem which is exactly my thoughts as well. Best wishes.
I never knew it cost 12 weeks of their wages....
I could of saved a small fortune knowing this!
Argh!
Just try to find other jobs for them. I always tend to retrain redudant personal for other TRs. Unfortunately its not (yet) possible to "outsource" pilots to other associated companies...
Yes, and it's a pity you can't retrain other staff as well as the pilots. Every time an interlining partner goes bust I have a load of unemployed network planners.