Originally Posted by
Omnislash
The CARES act did end up passing Congress when at the time, no one in the industry could have imagined it would or what the details of the act would look like.
The CARES act was introduced in the House on January 24. Am I saying Air Wis/ALPA should have known exactly what was in it? Absolutely not. But ALPA, which represents over 60,000 pilots, probably had an idea of what would be included 7 days before it was signed into law.
Originally Posted by
Omnislash
The reality is that you don't care about any of that. You only care about yourself and it shows by your skewed "Concessions vs Furlough analysis" that you created. Saying that your numbers are "not perfect" would be an understatement. Your groupings of pilot percentages and the pay to go with them don't even look close. Reserve lines which make up about half the lines only saw a 5 hour reduction in pay for those two months.
What percentages would you allocate to the pay rates? If you provide some numbers I will update the analysis and repost.
Or can you tell me a
better estimate of how much the pilots conceded?
Also, I did not consider that LCAs lost over 15 hours of pay. Their guarantee is typically higher. Since the union said "reduce minimum guarantee to 60" the LCAs had their pay cut by more than 15 hours. Maybe this has been resolved, but last I heard it was not.
Lastly, I did not consider all of the value from the stay at home lines. That saved the company a considerable amount of money as well.
Originally Posted by
Omnislash
It's glaring that in your "findings" you assume the deal can be called off after it was already made (did you forget that you have been on here screaming foul about the company reneging on the bonus deal-aka hypocrisy). What's most glaring and shows your selfishness, is that you assume that if the company gave that money back, it would not be repaid to all the pilots, but instead be used to pay the salary-but no benefits for some reason-of a small section of the furloughed pilots that you happen to belong to.
Nowhere in here am I demanding that it be paid to furloughed pilots. All I'm saying, since others brought up the concessions, is that the dollar value could bring
about 50 pilots back from furlough. It's an option. If it were possible, I would encourage ALPA to put it to a vote. There are lots of options. Would you rather recoup your concessions, pay for all furloughed pilots health insurance, bring only 50 pilots back, etc.? All of these are feasible considering the cost savings that we supplied to the company.