Originally Posted by
Turnamdburn200
If it makes you feel better some of your fellow pilots are gonna make some decent money off you picking up all the open time created by the furloughs. Maybe they will share with you. NOT! I get publicly the union has to say that “not picking up open time is bad” but the reason it’s bad is because it’s a work action. The courts will use any group effort against the pilots.
Not picking up time has to be a personal and individual choice. “I” can survive on 75 hours so “I” have no reason to pick up knowing that my fellow pilots are on the unemployment line.
That’s pretty much what it is.
I’m pretty sure the senior guys would have been able to make the individual choice and either survive on 75 hours or less but chose not to.
Ultimately they made the selfish choice and looked out for themselves by not agreeing to concessions which could have potentially kept us on property.
I really hope they enjoy the money from open time created from our furloughs. AW made a business decision but the senior guys made a personal one.
I think they forgot that they’re also just a number like we are and are expendable too. Only thing is the circumstances favored them this time around.
There’s something called karma. Remember that when we’re standing in unemployment lines or having our homes repossessed or being evicted because we couldn’t find work or work that paid enough for us to look after our families.