Originally Posted by
dera
Under required assurances, it says applicant, not air carrier. It also addresses this by the SotT determining affiliated entities, which the WO's definitely are.
"refrain from conducting involuntary layoffs or furloughs, or reducing pay rates and benefits, of employees of the applicant and its subsidiaries (or, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, any affiliated entity) until September 30, 2020;"
it says discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. Unless you’re Steve Mnuchin, how do you know that you definitely are going to be considered an affiliated entity? They have stated that they will not let the airlines fail. If an excess number of WO pilots are sitting around unable to fly because airplanes are parked due to scope and the AAG whines about hardships etc, are you really going to bank on the fact that they won’t be able to work some kind of deal to interpret the language that AAL applied for the funding and not AAG and that the wholly owners are an entity/affiliate of AAG the same as AAL so since AAL applied for funds the WOs should have to apply and be approved individually? Not saying that will happen, but it also isn’t far stretched that AAG would try something like that. Airlines don’t care about anything other than survival right now and will likely stop at nothing to survive. I hope no one gets furloughed, but I wouldn’t count on it being a guarantee that guys won’t. Have a plan And if you don’t need it, great! At least you had one.