Originally Posted by
Nevets
Punish? No, they don't have to. It's more subtle. Their immoral whipsaw business plan is in place. It does the "punishing" while middle management keeps their hands clean. For right now, we have the static fleet plan they threatened us with if we voted no. That means that no aircraft are renewed when their lease and or CPA they belong to expire. Their "punishment" strategy is passive aggressive like that. They try to lull the pilots into thinking that it is what it is and they can claim plausible denial. When in fact it's all part of Inc's sinister plan. They are probably waiting for the pain of a shrinking fleet before they think about coming back again and try for concessions again.
Whatever fleet plans are, that's what they are. They are just trying to get us to concede in exchange for changes that are going to happen anyway. Pilots do not make or break fleet plan choices for airlines. Maybe some scope tweaking happens to comply such as the creation of the ERJ 140, but not much more than that. I wish we were as important as we think we are in determining fleet plans. We're not. We just have to demand to be paid for the equipment that is coming one way or another. We should not be paying the value of our careers out for airplanes they are going to be operating no matter what.