Originally Posted by
ERJFO
Just trying to understand this. You work for a company that is burning $40 to $50M in cash a day, bringing in less than 10% of the revenue they used to and you want to cause them more pain and expense?
Yes. These are not normal times. The contract was written to keep the company from unnecessarily furloughing every winter, on a whim.
This is also not the time to give up items in the contract for free. There is huge potential down side in the contract with stuff we would never, or take decades, get back--especially if we end up in bankruptcy. Furlough is very traumatic. Make it difficult for the company to furlough, meaning expensive, and it incentivizes the company to not do it needlessly.
Pilot furlough costs are in the noise if we go to bankruptcy. Literally anything we do will not make a difference in terms of cost savings to avoid bankruptcy. So why give for free when we now know we'll not get it back, not in most pilots careers.