Of course some of the guys getting furloughed would be willing to sacrifice anything in our contract to avoid losing their livelihood for the forseeable future. Completely understandable. I don't do much OT myself.


However, I might be giving management too much credit, but to me it seems like their automatic no to mitigation, crew room roadshows, and unwillingness to even consider addressing glaring sources of waste and abuse (cadet program) for savings before coming after pilot jobs makes this look political. It undermines solidarity and weakens us to further concessions, esp. when the AAG bankruptcy inevitably hits within the next 5 years. It also satisfies their desire to post job losses to motivate congress to make with the handouts.


Just remember guys, we're already extremely cheap as far as airline pilots go. If they want the OT letter or whatever else, they can afford to buy it back from us.