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?
You received some good replies, so I won't pile on. I will however politely suggest that you have quite a bit more to learn about the airline bidness as it applies to labor.
You could start here...
https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Landing-...0350434&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Splash-Colors...0350502&sr=8-1
And On Wooden Wings, or From Wooden Wings, I can't recall.
It's been posted a thousand times in the last 40 years, we could work for FREE, and they'd still furlough pilots at will and go out of business. The question becomes, do you want to do what you do now, for LESS until the lock they doors? I know I don't. It won't change the date.
They live like pigs and torch us for every cent from one contract to the next. Then when times are bad they expect the peons to refloat the ship just long enough for them to invent a new round of bonuses. And this even when they are the ones who rammed us up onto the shoal. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
They need a loan? Fine, let's talk about the repayment schedule and terms. Absent that, pound sand.