Originally Posted by
Tankerhead
You've made some giant assumptive leaps with your weak-sauce post, but you’ve failed to make the only leap that matters, even though multiple people have laid it out. Concessions won’t prevent furloughs. Period. You’re gonna give as much as you can to the loan shark, but he’s still gonna come smash your kneecaps.
That’s not what GK said, or implied. It was concessions TO NOT FURLOUGH. I would assume if it came to concessions, an understanding that pilots would not be furloughed for X amount of time (say, 2021).
The idea that we would concede, then a month later GK would (with a sinister laugh) furlough anyway Is being paranoid.
The industry as a whole may be like that, but not SWA. If Gary makes a public promise, he will keep it.