Originally Posted by
baseball
Right.
I don't know what it costs these days, but in 1996 it cost over 10K to move my family.
If management wants to displace pilots it will be very expensive. I wonder three things really:
1. Does the company have the cash to move the pilots?
2. Whose budget does it come out of? Who accounts for it?
3. Was this in any of the financial plans published so far (another words was it previously planned for and budgeted?)
Last financial report there was about $6B in cash which means they could afford to move 600,000 pilots at $10k each.
Also, what's the cost (for just one month) to have a Captain in a base that they don't need, let alone 150 of them. At $14,000 a month it makes sense to displace.
Plus the company knows all the pilots who get bumped won't leave the base. They know many will just move to other positions, so there isn't really a big cost. Plus others won't move, they'll just commute until they can get back in base.
None of us hope to see anyone leave the base. But this is the reality of the merger. The LUAL guys are now running manpower planning and most of them have been here 20+ years, and this is how they did things in the past. They have more pilots and more bases to play with, and they are going to optimize it as much as possible.