Originally Posted by
Bert Sampson
I don't think I'll ever understand UNA pilots pleading to be furloughed instead of the rest of us taking ALV cuts. And I don't understand the same pilots that were wailing about how high ALVs were going to be this summer because of bEiNg gUmMeD now saying that ALV reductions are a concession because, like, that same Delta wants to have 17,000 pilots on the seniority list when this is over? Or something?
The only rationale that makes sense is that pilots are making a false equivalence between [pay rates + work rules ca. 2003] and [ALVs ca. 2020]. Since the former were taken on the road to bankruptcy and then taken again after, then necessarily since DL is asking for the latter now, they MUST also be planning to take more later, possibly in bankruptcy again. But this is not how history works!
No false equivalency. We just are looking 5-15 years down the road not 2 feet in front of our face. You have a history of giving concessions. We don't want it. Simple.
We know you are going to green slip when we are on the street. Fine. It's already happening with the first round of folks on UNA. We don't want you to pork away what we have right now in the PWA. It's really that simple.
3 other airlines managed to work out cost saving methods without giving or asking for concessions. Why are we even talking about it? Savvy?