Originally Posted by
PVDtoDEL
Yeah, a 90% difference in ontime record is absolutely massive.. And weirdly, AI manages to get the plane back from ORD on time 80% of the time... I just don't get it...
Not sure how airports charge airlines for their time spent on ground but maybe it is in AI's best fiscal interests to spend only the bare minimum required time on ground at ORD.
Besides, if AA can get the DEL-ORD flight on time and AI can't despite scheduling their departures 90 mins apart, then perhaps AI should look at moving its departure time to leave before the fog sets in. Surely that is not an issue at its main hub.
Originally Posted by
PVDtoDEL
Considering that AI probably has too many people employed in its revenue management department, this would surprise me. The middle management runs AI like any other airline.
Merely employing people doesn't mean the revenue management department actually is good at its job. If Staff:Aircraft was the benchmark, AI would be the best airline in the world. Please bear in mind this is the same management that thinks the best way to correct that ratio is to buy more aircraft, not to shed staff!
Originally Posted by
PVDtoDEL
Right, exactly. What kind of LCC can provide those kinds of things? Drives up costs like crazy. And this is one obvious example of what I'm talking about when I say VJM's ego is in the way
No, that would be extremely sensible business decision to extend the benefits that are available to a passenger owing to their status with the airline, if the airline only flies its low cost subsidiary on a particular route. I'd be pissed too if I had lounge access owing to my status, flew a particular airline for that benefit, and was suddenly told that my regular route was being flown by a low cost arm of that airline and so I won't have lounge access.
Besides, this is nothing new, QANTAS does it with Jetstart services too.
You are really gonna have to look hard to find examples of VJM's ego getting in the way of running the airline, especially as in one of the other threads, I've outlined 4 things that AI and KF have in common yet you keep praising them as AI's strategy while KF's get slammed for being mistakes.
