Originally Posted by
LeineLodge
I wasn't furloughed, nor a deadzoner. By all relative measures I've had a charmed career, for which I'm extremely grateful. However I'd say the same thing to guys hanging on to the pensions, SLI injustices, furloughs, whatever: let it go.
My grow up comment was in response to DM threatening 30 years of min effort. Maybe I mis-read his "fly the contract" stance, but it sounds like a lot of baggage to carry around for a long time.
Could management have handled it better? Absolutely, particularly with SILs or something similar a-la United. It was also an epic hundreds-of-parked-jets-tumbleweeds-in-the-streets period of time - easy to forget that after the fact.
This. Don't confuse my lack of a pity party for lack of compassion and support. I was all on board to take lower pay, cover health insurance, etc. Most "senior" pilots I spoke with at the time felt exactly the same way. Glad you guys are all back. I just flew with a UNA on my last trip and the dude was awesome. Much better to focus on what we have in common than what divides us.
I called my alpa rep after seeing several communications adamant about not reducing work to save UNA's and was told I was the ONLY person who had expressed a willingness to work less to save the UNAs. He basically tried to tell me how it was a bad idea and that it wouldn't work.....I was blown away. Thankfully the cares money kept everyone on board....