Originally Posted by
sailingfun
No we don't, the alternative is to furlough those pilots. Is that what you really want? Be thankful that a foresighted individual realized the best method to prevent furloughs was via a layered approach. Layering in economic penalties to the company has served us very well since we got away from traditional no furlough clauses.
This is an excellent point. Between numerous LOAs the past couple of years that have improved our contract (albeit incrementally) to this example, I'm glad we have union and management teams that are at least stretching the tired old models of "here is the contract, nothing will ever change until the next TA is ratified" blah blah blah.
Strict no furlough clauses are absolutely worthless as we have seen before. But subtly layering economic penalties in the event of furloughs is a much more clever--and most importantly--effective approach.
Without those penalties, I'm certain we would have announced "seasonal" furloughs along with every network cutback the past couple of years.