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!
For quite a few of is this isn't our first airline. We have seen this play before at other companies. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Also yes the ALV was absurdly high last summer. In short they want us to help them out when they dont hire enough people and then also want us to help them lower the costs. I'm done helping them.