Originally Posted by StinkyCA

With Covid unemployment at $400/we most of those FOs will be making the same as a 60 hour guarantee LOL. Seniority is everything. Period. 490 pilots at the bottoms is heavy on 175 FO, there would be a lot of equipment displacements that prove to be much costlier than the ~$1.4M (peanuts) mgmt saves by laying off the most junior 500 guys. There comes a point where pilots (and any skilled laborer) must put a line in the sand on what that skill is worth, instead of racing to the bottom when there are better options on the table.

Don’t know why you’re stomping your feet over this. You’re all for everyone taking a cut to 60 hours, but what happens when it’s passed and you’re downgraded anyway? Gonna b*tch about being paid at 60 hours FO?

Youre not going to get sympathy from guys at the top who have gone through 3+ furloughs, mergers, and bottom of the seniority list staples. There is nothing left to concede. Not in a contract year, not ever. I encourage junior FOs to run their financial numbers excluding their first year bonus—most will maybe see 25K year 2.

Let the union do its job.