Fair enough.. make it $104K a year, and it still comes out to only 8 dollars per ticket.
What is going on here is the PHB's are doing what a friend of mine calls majoring in the minors.
They can cut the FA's salaries by 50% and it still doesn't alter the fact that folks like me simply aren't going to fly anymore until some more fundamental issues are addressed.
Until such "issues" are addressed satisfactorily, the airlines will continue to lose money.
Well, some of us have to fly, so we learn how to play the game. No metal of any kind on your body, don't take change, pack corkscrews and fingernail clippers in checked bags.
Hey, Southwest is making money. There will likely be three or four large airlines around in three years, with much lower fares.
Piloting aircraft will only be a plum job to jet jockeys who didn't go to college, as the days of $250K per year captains will be gone forever.