Originally Posted by
iaflyer
And if not enough leave?
Realistically, the senior Captains are getting plenty of vacation, fly good trips and can drop their trips if they want time off.
Why would they leave so they can buy their own insurance and take a 100% paycut?
Sure - I bet Delta will give them as an early out 6 months of pay or so, maybe $20K in medical. But like George in Seinfeld said, "if I stay, I get it all" - 12 months of pay a year and subsidized medical.
Then they should be displaced before the fence comes down as specified by our current PWA..nothing like going to training for a pay cut and a couple weeks on Virginia Ave to motivate somebody on the fence with the green pastures of a frozen DB retirement waiting for them on the other side.
No more special deals for the company...if they want to throw 4 747's in the boneyard after refurbishing the interiors, then they can deal with the training costs. If those costs are too much to swallow, then 25% of the 74 guys can get paid fishing for Walleye on Leach Lake. I've already been displaced 3 times, been furloughed and made 5 extra unplanned trips to the schoolhouse..no big deal. We've all survived the elimination of the MD11, L1011, 767-2, 727, 737-3/3G/2, 74-2 and DC-9..what's a couple more 74's? Let's see how many senior 74A's want to say "scattered, smothered and covered"?
No deals..no accommodations..let's see what happens when the company has to deal with 300 training events.
That's our leverage.