Originally Posted by
duvie
painting my comment as though I’m claiming to have an excess of experience is silly, you guys can argue with me without being petty (despite my very sarcastic response, sorry about that). I’m just saying I was there too. I didn’t have 2 kids in college and a spouse who was used to a high standard of living (and An ex-wife, a sports, car, boat and airplane). But it still wasn’t pretty.
In a scenario where the LOA sunsets and the company disregards this, what stops them from changing other aspects of the UPA unilaterally? Seriously? In a situation where the company is writing their own rules, we are fairly far removed from normal UPA operation and I would hope MPG would be farther down the priority list. How do we know they won’t come after their contributions to our PRAP? You can take doomsday as far as you want, but once you cross the bright line of any UPA abrogation, you’re in a world that is... wait for it.... TERRIFYING, as anyone who has flown through a bankruptcy can attest.
my point is that it’s not like the company is going to just pick and choose which parts of the UPA they adhere to. It’s a kind of all-or-nothing deal
Look, I've been furloughed twice, but I've still paid for both of my kids' colleges in full and dumped the high cost wife when I was a probie back in 2000. Current wife is frugal and we could both retire tomorrow with no negative impact on our standard of living because we've saved a lot over the years. This isn't about money for me. It's what the company could do with a lower MPG.
You're taking the exact wrong approach to keeping the company in check. The only thing that will limit furloughs is hard caps on flying hours because when there are furloughs, there will be BESs where they're short. They'll offer premium pay and some pilots being what they are, will fly their butts off even with guys on the street.
So if you're really concerned about limiting furloughs, think caps, not floors. But the company won't want those and neither will our credit ***** pilots so even that's just urinating in the wind.
If you cannot wrap your cranium case around floors and caps, I cannot help you.