Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
Listen I won’t ever entertain a single concession ever. Played that game before. I’m just noting that some seem to think what affects the bigger carriers doesn’t affect us. I’d bet money that if the United deal come out before we did ours did to mirror close to Southwest we wouldn’t have the deal we have. Also, given that it has no guarantees for furloughs past October I think management may see that door as still open for leverage.
Then furlough...500+ pilots got a stay of execution when 1000 pilots took a partial pay leave. If you think this group will/should/are going to entertain management coming back to the table again and asking for more or threatening furloughs again, then furlough. Let the company risk not being properly staffed when travel resumes and they have guys furloughed and guys on EIL with no trigger in the MOU to make guys come back early.
Im willing to bed the 500+ guys who were going to be furloughed, and were saved by the EILs, would not want the contract gutted after the company threaten to furlough them again. Furloughs happen in this industry, we try to prevent them, and we did. If it requires concessions, sorry, but the MEC has spoken on this already.
Meanwhile....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/06/trum...-election.html