Originally Posted by
Cyio
This right here. Envoy gave concessions up the wa-zoo and it just recently got some watered down version of some of them back. Once you give something up it ain’t coming back, not without a fight.
It drives me crazy that the pilot groups are always the ones bailing out the company. Why does that always have to be the first knob they turn? My guess would be that traditionally it has always worked.
Pilot salaries (labor in general) are by far and away the largest controllable expense at most airlines. ESPECIALLY at a regional which IS a staffing company. Right or wrong this is where they have to go first. They NEED the bodies so concessions are better than furloughs from the company point of view. Ultimately as a pilot your QOL is tied up with your seniority. When there is a down turn THAT is what you are saving - not necessarily the company but in essence your goals are aligned in a down turn. So the company is going to over reach on concessions. Pilots will under reach. It’ll be a negotiation. Both have something to save and something to lose.