Originally Posted by
sailingfun
This is the part I don’t think pilots grasp. The company wants a cost reduction from the pilots. They have a contractually legal method to achieve that reduction. They are offering alternatives to the current contractual option. We as pilots are not deciding if there will be cost reductions. The only thing we are deciding is if we will force 100% of the reduction on the bottom of the seniority list or spread it throughout the seniority list. I know how I feel on the issue and what we should be done.
What we are deciding is if we honor our PWA as written or amend it to make furlough language irrelevant and set the precedent for concessions over staffing reductions when clearly the business has changed and has to be right sized. If this were another industry or another company perhaps this setback would be palatable in the short term but unfortunately history shows concessions here are never fully returned.