Originally Posted by
9mikemike
So now to reward the “hardest working”FA’s at the company we have a new plan. We need to shrink the SFO and LAX FA bases by 400 total. Instead of following their contract and putting out a realignment bid and reducing those two bases and placing additions in ANC, PDX and SEA they are going to furlough the bottom 400 while denying 400 requested leaves. It gets better, after they furlough these FA’s they are going to start recalling them as needed but to vacancies of the companies choice. Neat little contractual side step....The Alaska Airlines FA’s are the only reason we have won awards, have the strongest Mileage Plan in the business etc etc....As if saving on FA salaries and so on will make any difference. Classic Angle Lake Evil at work...Don’t think for a minute they wont be coming for us soon...
I’m not sure I follow. What do you mean place additions in ANC, PDX, and SEA? If they want a pure furlough it would be 100% reductions and 0% vacancies. They could do -200 in SF and -200 in LA. Are the bottom 400 FAs all in SF and LA? If they are, I don’t see how the end result would be any different.
On the pilot side, the whole EIL was outside the contract thinking. We had no contractual provision (and apparently this doesn’t count as furlough mitigation). That said, demand seems to have plateaued out at about 25-30% of pre-Covid levels. I don’t see how we can move forward without huge drastic changes. And a vaccine is no guarantee of getting back to normal. 1/3 Americans polled said they aren’t going to take it. Fauci concerned that 2/3 will not be effective for herd immunity. Vaccine or no vaccine, we are hosed for a long time to come.
Luckily we have 2 fleets. FAs are dual trained, we can’t be. That’s another reason their outcome is different.