Originally Posted by
FL370esq
Of course, the common retort to your corollary was that "the trip was going to be flown anyway so why should I give up a GS to let a junior pilot fly it as an IA?"
"Ummmmm.....because that junior pilot is likely next to be furloughed and might need the $$?"
Same pilot who said - "You don't expect me to take a paycut to stop furloughs do you?"
"Of course not...then you would be paying 2% to a union rather than a dues paying association."
Greenslipping while guys are on furlough is one of the things I could never bring myself to ever contemplate.
However, pay cuts--also known as concessions--to prevent a furlough is a tougher nut to crack. On the one hand I think we would all support that...IF we could be truly convinced that that paycut would be the difference during truly dire straits for the company.
The problem with that is that furloughees are then held as "hostages" by the company to force us into concessions, when the furloughees would have been furloughed anyway, and recalled anyway, pay cuts or not.
That one is trickier, and I am glad that right now this is just a hypothetical discussion!