Originally Posted by
JimLaheyTPS
Pipe and Hedley, all good rebuttals. I spoke with my rep today about this and echoed what pipe said. The company doesn’t have much interest in paying for us to do nothing. While I’d love to obviously see us have an option like this, I understand it’s likely not in our forecast.
Yep, it’s just about money. They would be open to any mitigation that would reduce their cost. If they could get some positive press and save a few jobs at the same time, that would be great, but the bottom line is that furloughs will help the cash burn more than any mitigation that we would approve. The company is going to make their cuts and I doubt that there is much that we can do to even slow it down. The cuts are also way too big for ALPA to suggest that those who stay pay an assessment to pay furloughed pilots. The insurance assessment easily passed, but if we start talking big money, I doubt that it will.