Originally Posted by Lewbronski

No concessions.

Airline history demonstrates that concessions don’t preclude furloughs.

Even if we were willing to craft an agreement prohibiting furloughs in exchange for pay cuts, it has taken this pilot group decades to achieve the pay rates we have achieved. It will take years to get them back and will effect our future negotiating ability because we will have displayed to the company our soft underbelly. It will also undercut our own position if, God forbid, we end up going into a Ch 11 reorganization proceeding.

No one asked SWAPA if it was wise to ratchet up the pilot to aircraft ratio from the 10.5 it had been fixed at for almost our entire history until shortly after our 2016 contract was approved, when it began to sharply increase to its pre-covid level of close to 14. No asked the pilot group how we felt about hiring 2,000 excess pilots that would end up resulting in a decrease in average line value and at least a 10% effective pay cut already. Now management wants us to take additional pay cuts to redress their missteps.

No one asked the pilot group how we felt about spending $9.9 billion dollars since 2014 on share repurchases and dividends. That money went entirely to enrich Wall St and our own corporate executives via their stock incentives. It didn’t go to upgrade our operational capabilities, our customer service experience, or pay our cohearts better. No one asked us, they just did it. It sure would be nice to have an additional $9.9 billion right now. That was their decision. Now they want us to cough up our very hard-won gains to compensate for their mismanagement.

No concessions.