Originally Posted by
dada9898
Not whining,,, I just asked for thoughts (opinions) - not attacks or insults. Opinions are just that - not how it should be. Open dialogue - Agree to Disagree - Respect others. Things you obviously don't get.
A couple of premium pay 787 trips could possibly offset a job or two of a Gate Agent, a new hire FA, or a Line job. You see I think about other people and not just myself. So it could possibly be to the cost of another. Just not another pilot. It's not like we aren't well paid already.
Lastly, if the goal is to minimize cash burn - then minimize cash burn. But I'm only interested in two-way thoughtful, respectfull dialogue. So please excuse yourself from this one.
Thanks for the other thoughtful responses - I can see it from some of those points as well.
There is only one thing that drives employee numbers, that’s demand. If there is no need for a job, it goes away, premium pay trips or not. Your heart is in the right place but at the end of the day UAL is not a charity, and they won’t keep one person more than is needed to run the operation. Same goes for pilots.
This is why we don’t fly PPU trips or volunteer one day off when there are pilots on the street. If they furlough one, then we make the demand such that we make them bring that pilot back. That’s is about the limit we have on controlling jobs... below the wing we have no influence on that.
There will be the selfish Richards out there who are only in it for themselves that will prostitute themselves out regardless of the furlough situation. They can expect to deal with the repercussions from the pilot group, and to be treated like the Richard they are.
Don’t be a Richard.