AA to go back to "banked" hubs

[Crash Pad DCA]

Would you rather have more pay and fewer workers or everyone keeping their jobs?  BTW all airlines pay market rates to their nonunion employees without issue. And did you notice SWA had over 10K applicants for 750 FA jobs.  Turnover in this industry is also very low. There really is no case to be made that airline employees are under paid dispite your union telling you that all the time.

http://www.auburn.edu/~johnsrd/4160/Readings/Southwest%20Employee%20Branding.pdf

 

[mike33]

True dat, marketplace at work.

Josh

I'm sure your opinion would be 180 degrees if you were still employed here but ur not. Now you are with the corporate world and are a ex disgruntled employee. Something you can not escape. 
  Scourned lover!

 

[robbedagain]

And wn pays their employees much higher than other airlines. Also aa pays their's higher than pre merger us folks. And the list goes on

 

[Crash Pad DCA]

Would you rather have more pay and fewer workers or everyone keeping their jobs?  BTW all airlines pay market rates to their nonunion employees without issue. And did you notice SWA had over 10K applicants for 750 FA jobs.  Turnover in this industry is also very low. There really is no case to be made that airline employees are under paid dispite your union telling you that all the time.

3Q2013 Airline Revenues per Employee
http://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Efficiency.php?ind=1102

 

 

[Rogallo]

The fluffing part is over???

 

[RJcasualty]

3Q2013 Airline Revenues per Employee
http://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Efficiency.php?ind=1102

 

LOL. Show that chart to the seed corn of the pilot profession--- such as a regional FO who's paying back student tuition loans, on food stamps and doing his sundries shopping by lifting soap, shampoo and tp from the hotel room.  

 

[Crash Pad DCA]

 
For the most part he has done a remarkable job of saving head count since 9/11.

Acdording to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), in September 2001 US had 45,069 employees and AW had 13,633 employees for a combined total of 58,702 employees. In September 2013 US had 33,250 FTEs. From Sep 2001 to Sep 2013 25,452 jobs have been lost at US/AW, or a 43% loss of jobs.
 
In September 2001 AA had 97,939 employees, and in September 2013 AA had  62,290 employees. From Sep 2001 to Sep 2013 35,649 jobs have been lost at AA, or a 36% loss of jobs. 
 
AA saved 7% more jobs than US/AW from Sep 2011 to  Sep 2013.
 
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http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Employment/Employment.aspx
 
September 2001 Airline Employment

 
September 2013 Airline Employment

 

[700UW]

Did you title the first chart with the wrong date?

 

[Crash Pad DCA]

 
For the most part he has done a remarkable job of saving head count since 9/11.

In the 10 year period between August 2003 and August 2012 WN increased the its employment by 42%.
 
That's pretty remarkable.
 
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2012/10/employment-in-u-s-airline-industry-including-southwest-airlines-rose-in-august-down-at-american-airlines.html/
 

 

[Crash Pad DCA]

Did you title the first chart with the wrong date?

Yes. Apologies. I corrected it. Thanks for the catch!

 

[eolesen]

In the 10 year period between August 2003 and August 2012 WN increased the its employment by 42%.
 
That's pretty remarkable.

Yes, it is, but you need to look a little further to see just how remarkable it is.

In 2003, WN had ~65M enplanements. In 2013, they had over 133M. That's more than double the passenger boardings in a 10 year period.

ASM's grew by ~78% -- from 71.7K to over 128K

I could go on, but you should get the point by now...

They've doubled in terms of boardings and almost doubled in terms of available seat miles, yet only added 42% to their headcount.

*THAT* is remarkable.

 

[FWAAA]

Acdording to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), in September 2001 US had 45,069 employees and AW had 13,633 employees for a combined total of 58,702 employees. In September 2013 US had 33,250 FTEs. From Sep 2001 to Sep 2013 25,452 jobs have been lost at US/AW, or a 43% loss of jobs.
 
In September 2001 AA had 97,939 employees, and in September 2013 AA had  62,290 employees. From Sep 2001 to Sep 2013 35,649 jobs have been lost at AA, or a 36% loss of jobs. 
 
AA saved 7% more jobs than US/AW from Sep 2011 to  Sep 2013.

I think you forgot to add the TWA employees to the AA employees in the Sept 2001 employee totals.   Still, even with those job losses,  AA and HPdbaUS are about even in percentage of jobs shed since 2001, and your point remains valid:   Parker didn't do anything all that remarkable.   Especially since he was blessed with the lowest legacy airline labor costs in the industry since the merger in 2005.   

 

[UPNAWAY]

Chrash Pad US And AWA merged Sep 2005, then US Airways only had 22K employees (they went through BK twice recall). So if you add their numbers with the AWA post 9/11, I used that date because DP took over two weeks before, you have no real loss of jobs.

 

[767one]

In the 10 year period between August 2003 and August 2012 WN increased the its employment by 42%.
 
That's pretty remarkable.
 
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2012/10/employment-in-u-s-airline-industry-including-southwest-airlines-rose-in-august-down-at-american-airlines.html/
 

In the 10 year period between August 2003 and August 2012 WN increased the its employment by 42%.
 
That's pretty remarkable.
 
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2012/10/employment-in-u-s-airline-industry-including-southwest-airlines-rose-in-august-down-at-american-airlines.html/
 

If you take a snapshot of almost any airline you will find at some point they had remarkable growth. Take a look at Piedmont or USAir in the 80's. If an airline has 1 airplane and then buys another airplane that is remarkable growth? When the airline is smaller and and grows it is easier to have a higher percentage of growth than a larger carrier. If American or Delta or United were to grow the same as you say AW grew during that time period you "cherry picked" then that would be remarkable.

All the best,

Bob

 

[MetalMover]

   Especially since he was blessed with the lowest legacy airline labor costs in the industry since the merger in 2005.   

Do you notice a trend here?