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“The Company has openly stated it is not willing to take on any spending beyond what it absolutely needs to in order to ensure a viable future for our airline. This posed a major challenge for furlough mitigation, as many options for it do have a bit of a cost over furlough or voluntary furlough (which we already have contractual language for). Even though your negotiators tried to offset that risk and posed some solutions for a downside guarantee, there was no way to completely eliminate the possibility of additional cost.”
So ATW would rather junior man and make the non furloughed/downgraded pilots miserable than do the right thing and properly staff the airline. The amount of open time next month is a glaring Testament to that.
At least management will be able to afford cognac for their brady old fashioneds, guac for their chipotle and ranch for their cheese curds while the rest of us lose our houses and our cars in the mean time.
it sucks from a pilot perspective, no doubt, but what would you have them do? Management’s job is to set up the company for long term viability. The fact remains that’s it’s cheaper to pay open time / JM pay vs benefits & MMG for the 138 furloughed pilots. I’m not saying it’s right, absolutely it’s not, but from a purely business perspective, what would you have them do?Originally Posted by RAHkid94
I think it was roughly August 15.“The Company has openly stated it is not willing to take on any spending beyond what it absolutely needs to in order to ensure a viable future for our airline. This posed a major challenge for furlough mitigation, as many options for it do have a bit of a cost over furlough or voluntary furlough (which we already have contractual language for). Even though your negotiators tried to offset that risk and posed some solutions for a downside guarantee, there was no way to completely eliminate the possibility of additional cost.”
So ATW would rather junior man and make the non furloughed/downgraded pilots miserable than do the right thing and properly staff the airline. The amount of open time next month is a glaring Testament to that.
At least management will be able to afford cognac for their brady old fashioneds, guac for their chipotle and ranch for their cheese curds while the rest of us lose our houses and our cars in the mean time.