Originally Posted by
hyperboy
Each pilot has reason or a combination of reasons they voted YES or NO. Profit Sharing may or may not have been one of them.
Historically many of the big companies that have had massive profit sharing have also had massive furloughs (in the blink of an eye) in the past.....
Whoa wait a sec. It appears you are implying companies that have large profit sharing programs are more prone to furlough? Is that correct?
Do I really need to point out to you that when times are bad, ie when there’s no profit, profit sharing costs the company nothing? If companies aren’t making profit, and therefore aren’t giving out profit sharing, how can you possibly imply that profit sharing leads to furloughs?
Correlation does not equal causation.
Also, delta started in what, 1924? They had proudly never furloughed. Until they did. In what was it, 91 or so?
To imply jetblue is somehow superior, immune from, or less prone to furlough (and link it to industry lagging PS) is simply ignoring the cyclical nature of this industry, and ignoring where jetblue falls on the growth/maturation scale of any company, much less an airline, as well as the fact that businesses change, the economy changes, as do a whole other multitude of factors that affect furloughs. Profit sharing isn’t really one of those factors. So, to link them is ignorant at best.