Originally Posted by
Stok1
As it stands now, the LCCs may have a problem with staffing. Allegiant management is playing the delay card as best they can. You know like taking the right NMB and/or FAA peeps to luxury vacations, and/or someone's house being purchased at a 1000% markup; facilitated by an army of 1000/hr. union busting attorneys. So long as they can wait and run the pilot group for cheap, that's millions in their pockets. Allegiant management is hoping to last long enough to see through another calamity that cripples the industry as a whole. That would take care of attrition, they already know the company is profitable at 150bl oil.
You hear it loud and clear from the chief pilot on down, “Don't worry boys a contract is coming”. That is their mandate from the top, keep placating.
Exactly.....delay delay delay and maybe the next terrorist strike/war/oil scare will throw the industry back into downsizing/furlough/concession mode. Whole new ball game. Meanwhile they reap millions to stash for their own strike fund if it comes to that. It's a credible & predictable management strategy. Honestly the gulf between what the pilots and management consider a reasonable package is so great I can't see a settlement through ordinary bargaining.