Originally Posted by
Big5
I Recognize we’re gambling when HOPING for a certain trigger to end our misery under this TA. With odds like this TA (where the house has about a 90% edge) who in their right mind walks into a casino and lays a $100 bet that’ll pay 90% of your original bet? Or in the case of the junior group, we’ll lay the same bet with only a 53% payout.
I’ll pass on these odds.
The two assumptions you make which are incorrect, are that the junior group pilot has a job. If you think the company is bluffing, then I personally think you are nuts.
The other HUGE piece you aren’t acknowledging, is that a lot of senior pilots are losing their seat and us taking a pay cut, or losing so much seniority that their QOL in their BES is gutted. Everyone is going to have to make that choice themselves, but if you asked a lot of commuters if they’d like to maintain 90% of their current schedule, like productive and commutable trips, or fly more days a month for the same pay because they now can’t hold commutable or productive trips. That sounds more concessionary to me. But I like my life outside of work…
There’s no way the company furloughes less than 2007 if we are below 67.5% of flying. Believing the opposite, is to me a far stranger bet