Originally Posted by
Profane Kahuna
Those pilots were going to be at home either way.... on ExTO or unused on reserve. Getting them to volunteer for a paycut saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars.
I guess the ultimate irony would be a pilot who was paid 88 TFP to stay at home for months on reserve, complaining about a fellow pilot who was paid 55 TFP to stay at home on ExTO ?
Umm… or option 3. Furloughed. As evidenced by the WARN letters. Also, according to a small sample size (N=2) of my good SWA friends, a furlough vote would have gone “to hell with Dean” or would have been at least much closer than people think.
Either way, I’m glad it’s turning around for everybody.