This is ridiculous!

[ali5541]

This is ridiculous, I lowered wages a bit and set staff levels to 100% and I lost 10 CI points. That's no freakin fair, I spend 6mil a week raising it and it drops 10 points for some small cuts to save some cash. My airline is having some real hellish trouble making a profit and I pay 47mil a week for staff salaries, I cut a bit and I suffer that much more. I spent a boat load of cash getting my CI to 90 and now its at 78.33. What the hell is that?

[Sami]

Please clean up your language a bit, that is not very appropriate anymore..

[ali5541]

Please clean up your language a bit, that is not very appropriate anymore..

I'm terribly sorry for my language. Truly sorry, but that was so frustrating. It is very unfair. I don't like this at all.

[TommyC81]

No offence, but this sounds like an airline that has outgrown itself and is no more than a slowmoving outaged monster now. Sounds like reallife airlines that have been along for very long time and are stuck with their most senior (and costly) pilots and really can't cut many expenses even when trying. Time for some serious optmisation regarding your routes, times, capacity and prices/service? Sounds like you got hundreds of routes to fix tho...

[ali5541]

No offence, but this sounds like an airline that has outgrown itself and is no more than a slowmoving outaged monster now. Sounds like reallife airlines that have been along for very long time and are stuck with their most senior (and costly) pilots and really can't cut many expenses even when trying. Time for some serious optmisation regarding your routes, times, capacity and prices/service? Sounds like you got hundreds of routes to fix tho...

My airline is not a monster. And its the CI I'm annoyed by.

[Powi]

I think that in current system one can not alter the wages to gain benefit. I just leave them to Auto...

[freshmore]

i suppose if you make cuts people see your airline as "failing" and loose a certain amount of confidence so your image goes down.

[Sigma]

Try announcing wage cuts in real-life and see just how confident people feel about your airline.

I guarantee you they won't think you're the cream-of-the-crop if you're announcing wage cuts, particularly if you're the only one.  The flying populace immediately begins to wonder just what else you're cutting back on...

[d2031k]

Are we talking about British Airways here? 

[ali5541]

but 10 points is far to much. am I the only one who thinks so. you guys must know how hard it is to increase CI after 75. It took me 8 months to rise it from 80 to 90 and it drops 10 in 1 day. Isn't there a saying that says the harder they come the harder they fall? and the easier they come the faster they fall? well...

I can't be the only one that thinks this is completely unfair?

[freshmore]

it takes a long time to build that trust and in the real world you can loose that trust like that, instantly then you have to rebuild those bridges so to speak.

[TommyC81]

Still wouldn't use the word unfair, tough possibly. Like you said: Your company is struggling to make a profit and cutting wages is part of it, sounds pretty fair to me that CI goes down as it reflects those facts.

[ali5541]

yah sure okay. its easy when it happens to someone else, its not easy when it happens to you.

[Sigma]

In real-life you can lose decades of trust in literally minutes.  Not only is the public shaken by a company that's in such apparent dire financial straits that it must cut pay, but there's also a lot of residual impacts as well.  When you cut pay, morale falls drastically.  Customer service lags.  Planes start running late and not meeting turnaround times.  Customers get upset because your late and cancel percentages climb.  Those are all modeled here.  I believe even aircraft condition is affected by lack of morale in your maintenance department which also effects maintenance costs and customer perception, affecting CI.

[ali5541]

anyways, thanks for all the input guys. Im a little more relaxed now and l do feel a bit better. I think l just needed to vent.