I understand that it takes quite some time for the there to be changes, but I am wondering if I found a glitch in the weighted staff mood equation. A little background, I acquired an airline through one of my alliance members on Croydon, who was leaving AS well over a year ago. Upon taking over the airline, all the staff moods were five bars to the red as they were horribly underpaid. Now I immediately rectified this by changing wages to country average +$50, or more in most cases. I knew from my other airlines that any bars between the 5’s can move positive within a reasonable few weeks by just doing $20 over. Now it’s been over a year of wages like this and my staff mood is stuck at the same 5 red bars despite some being paid $90+ over country average in some instances. Now I don’t know how mood is exactly averaged, but from what I’ve seen from playing, is that the mood starts at a set value and is either increased or decreased based of wages and such, whilst accounting for the historical weight. The further red, the harder and longer it takes to bring to neutral and green. Could my airline be in some absolute zero function that will perpetually result in this? I’ve had other airlines with 4 bars red recover and had 1 where a 5 bar recovered, but none took longer than 2 months to see improvement, yet I’m here a year later with no improvement what so ever. At this point should I just screw it and make my wages as low as possible as it’s a futile exercise? Or have I built up a some miniscule fraction of improvement that will effect flight ratings if I turn around and make pay 50% of country average?
I think that was the reason why some (otherwise) pretty succesful airlines in this game went bancrupt. There seems to be a loop with the ratings once it is to low.
And by the way, if one can belive the theories they teach us in College, Wage as a factor to increase motiviation is overestimated anyway .
So does this mean it’s a fruitless endeavor to keep paying them so well? I can easily cut my wages by 45% if I just give up trying to please my disgruntled employees
Well, just calculate the amount of money your staff (per person of course) did not get until now. Given this, you should be able to guess more precisely how much you need to pay them until it gets better.
I’ve been overpaying by $100 a week to certain groups for over a year and nothing. At this point some improvement should be evident. Im pretty sure there’s a negative loop that’s been triggered.
AFAIK this is not true. It makes no difference how old the a/c is. I currently operate some 737Classic and see no changes. Also back when i operated 757s there was no difference to the brand new CRJs and A320s.
On the subject of salaries and staff mood - has anyone tried this? - I have a holding and two enterprises. I dropped the salaries paid by the holding by 10%, and the staff mood of the enterprises went up! Of course the staff mood at the holding dropped, but as there are no flights operated by the holding, there’s no company image to worry about
if you lower the salaries of the staff in your holding, the average salaries in your country go down. So the staff in your subsidiary automatically earns more than the average in your country.
I don’t know if a company with 1000 staff members weighs more than a small company with 100 staff members, but I believe your salaries only influence the average of your country if you actually employ such staff. In other words… if you don’t employ flight attendants, lowering the salary of flight attendants will not influence the average salary of flight attendants.
Anyway, it is easy to influence the average salaries… if you run the only airline in the country
