Originally Posted by
TED74
Short answer... we aren’t.
We were hired by an airline whose pension obligations to their pilots was wiped out by bankruptcy. Invoking a new obligation as reparations out of the contractual compensation of all those here now will only happen with the concurrence of the masses...meaning, it won’t. “Expectation” or not, there’s no way such an agreement even makes it to a TA in this post-VEOP world when a TA could be 2 years (and 800 more retirements) away.
And there you have it folks.
Good thing we agreed to said veop to help mitigate furloughs and an loa to guarantee income and full medical for those potentially furloughed (sarc). Not to mention
taxpayer bailouts so that a bunch of six-figure salaried pilots could sit around and do nothing for almost a year instead of furlough during pretty much the worst downturn in airline history.