Originally Posted by
DMEarc
Your carrier wasn't on the brink of Bankruptcy as PNCL seems to be.
The pilot group and the PNCL MEC has 2 choices. And 2 HARD CHOICES.
1. Take small concessions in work-rules, pay or contract sections in an effort to help the company reach their desired financial results.
OR
2. Take their chance in bankruptcy court and have a judge throw out your contract, your 401k match, unilaterally cut pay and most likely cut flying which would lead to MASS job losses.
I don't know if any of you guys look at your companies balance sheets, but it is CLEAR by indications of cashflow and expected costs that the company is in trouble. There is something deeper in the company that is not making money. There is no reason why they should be loosing $5 million per fiscal quarter. Q4 earnings results will show a bigger loss, I'm expecting.
You do not want to go to bankruptcy court with a company who is loosing that amount of money/per quarter against $1B in revenues. THINK.
Your going to bankruptcy court regardless of a new concessionary contract. Do you want to go to court with your current contract, where they will make cuts, or with a concessionary contract, where they will make cuts from the cuts you just took. Look back at United and Frontier, both were told concessions were need to keep from going into bankruptcy while bankruptcy was always the plan by management. In the PBS special the United bankruptcy lawyers said this and if I remember correctly frontier went into backrupcty the next month after the concessionary contract was passed.
Do you want a 25% paycut from what you have now or a 25% paycut from a 25% paycut? That's a tough one.