Originally Posted by
FetaCheese
The knowledge that APA was very top heavy and primarily looked out for the interests of senior pilots at the expense of everyone else was already known long before Covid. And I don't 100% blame the NC and/or BOD for these LOAs. But I think it's bad form for a certain APA member to go on a long rant on BTL about their intentions, and how we should blame big bad management.
I have no doubt management plays dirty. But you're telling me APA hás NO leverage? And he along with the rest of them need to check their feelings. 2500 of us are going through an extremely stressful situation and facing the very real possibility of being without our source of income soon. Right before the holidays, no less.
hopes were that the NC would come back and tell us the company was planning on furloughing 1200, but through creative LOAs we brought that number down to X. Instead they came back and basically threw furloughs over the entire 2500 like a wet blanket. There is NO WAY management planned to furlough the entire 2500 originally.
APA needs to be more sympathetic to what we're going through.
I don't think the original plan was to furlough 2500 when the company set out the WARN notices, however with the regression in bookings and overall drop in traffic again I think the company bumped that number back up. And I think the company came in and scared the $HIT out of the union with talks of having to furlough up to 4,000 pilots (or however many we have hired after Dec 13, 2013). It is just sad sad times we are in and short of Cares 2.0 and a vaccine I think A LOT of us are going to end up on the street unfortunately. At some point the airline will have to stop staffing an airline with 14,903 pilots when they are only flying one that requires maybe 10,000....the crazy thing is in like 4 years I think everyone on property today will be inside that 10,000 or very close to it...God this sucks.