Originally Posted by
9mikemike
Except there will be no PBS but you already knew that.....And single fleet efficiency as a percentage of whole for the Airbus is only 3% and you already knew that. Fortunately we will have no super stars flying vsa/premium which will be a large offset and both prevent furloughs to begin with, shorten the length of furloughs individually and bring back all furloughs as a group sooner...Last time around I believe the longest involuntary furloughs ran 1100 days...plus or minus
I think PBS will be voted in by late Q4 to early Q1, hope I am wrong, but I think it’s coming. I was told single fleet savings would be actually 5 percent. Closing one base helps attain that 5 percent, 2 bases are possible. I would not be surprised to see a new contract signed in the next 12 mouths that removes a lot of the furlough protections, I think company will get premium back, hope I am wrong. This is a high stakes poker match, nothing will surprise me. Company is sitting on 770 million in chips and the union a whopping 50k. The only thing we have figured out to do to this point is slow the hands down. We just keep getting up and walking away from the table, hoping something will change. Hasn’t worked yet, but we haven’t let that detour us.