Jesus H Christ. This may be mutually beneficial. Maybe it’s not, but just ENTERTAIN the idea that there could be something that both sides want.

We all agree that there is no way management wants more pilots than they need post-recovery, so we’ll get our 85 hour lines back. This was the very argument people posted in opposition to floating this idea in the first place.
“I wanna keep guys on, but management will never go for it....”

if you dichotomized ding-dongs don’t understand how This would reduce the amount of training required and keep us flexible for the upturn, I don’t know what to tell you. For anyone paying attention, SK’s nemesis (Parker) is trying to keep his airline as staffed as possible, which is the worst case scenario for SK. If there is ONE thing SK wants from this, it is to gain market share on AA. Not to slash our contract, not to get scope, but to be bigger than AA. Most CEOs are self-serving Richards... comes with the territory. Who else wants that kind of stress, except insecure, power-hungry, ego-maniacs? But they definitely have different objectives, so why not use this to the advantage of the junior pilots would otherwise be on the street?

obviously our interests’ are not aligned with management much of the time, but that also means that SOMETIMES they are. If you have such a knee jerk aversion to anything SK floats, you will invariably miss an opportunity for this airline to thrive.