Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

I posted this the night of that Oscar sent the email to employees. A family member forwarded it to me. He spoke of executives taking paycuts and needing to control payroll costs. When a CEO and other executives take a paycut it’s to set an example. The money is inconsequential to the health of a company to burns billions but it’s hard to ask for one without taking one yourself. So to me that says appears to be “looking” for paycuts. That was also before APA released their voluntary leave packages. It looks like and are are two different things.

I’m Not close to retirement but I’ve been at this long enough to know that airline managements will absolutely use a major short term crisis to lock in long term concessions. Even if they have snap back provisions, they will be violated and the pay never returns. I’m also aware of the major cascading training costs involved at carriers with multiple types when it comes to furloughs. Management always tries what’s easy. This is not new.

again they haven’t asked so far but United management was the first to release the “we need to control payroll” message and I’ve seen this movie before.

I think Alpa national knows this is huge but also short term and hopefully are working with each airline’s MECs to work on big solutions but that have us all that want to be back working as quickly as possible and at full pay.