Originally Posted by Blue Dude

No offense to any of the guys at risk of furlough, but our contract already contemplates tough times and was never especially generous. So I'm not interested in giving back anything in the contract to avoid furloughs. History shows that items "temporarily" given back often take much longer than expected or promised to be reinstated, sometimes they never are. They don't even help the company all that much; it's just them not letting a crisis go to waste so they can lock in cost cuts indefinitely. No pilot concessions ever saved a company.

The covid LOA softened the contract language enough for the company to react to current events, especially in regard to the AA codeshare. If that's not enough then the company has deeper issues than the pilot contract and we'd be fools to be stampeded into giving them more than what they need on the basis of doom and gloom forecasts. That story never ends well.