Originally Posted by
rickair7777
History has shown otherwise...
- Seasonal furloughs for junior pilots (or any pilots selected by management regardless of longevity).
- Schedules assigned per management favoritism.
- Permanent layoffs of older, more expensive pilots. To be replaced by young, cheap pilots when things turn around.
- Long layovers = "days off".
- Termination for pilots with low productivity (low productivity = sick calls, fatigue calls, mx writeups, delays, refusal to fly in wx, diversions, etc).
etc, etc, etc
What are you looking for, a guarantee, mediocrity over performance? No guarantees in life, even under union control. Still gonna have furloughs. Long layovers and inefficient schedule's are the norm at my airline, as well as 11 days off on reserve, and yep... we have a union.
Like I said in response to another post, why have the unions allowed the expansion of the low paying regional model over the past 15 plus years? I think regionals make up half the domestic schedules. I thought the unions charter was to promote good payin jobs and benefits?