Originally Posted by
FL450
It cost Omni Money to sell trips to other carriers due to staffing. The fact that we are selling trips because we can't staff.... Pitiful!
I think you'll see everyone except the majors doing that. I believe we're actually in a better staffing position than people would have others believe... it's definitely far from where we should be, but the hearsay of 20-30 pilots quitting per month was well out of place and unfounded (I'm talking a few months back, not recently).
Taking a step back from all this, even those who would sign up for what is on offer now (myself included), the best course of action appears to be to, at the absolute least, get the company to take the union seriously in getting back to the table and negotiate the few final items. Whether or not they totally cave to all the union demands or actually negotiate an agreeable middle ground remains to be seen. What it (getting back to the table) would do is remove any doubts of the union playing politics for the benefit of another group and reinforce the company's statement that it will follow up it's intentions with tangible actions.