Originally Posted by
bonvoyage
Breeze was trying (not very hard) to keep cheap labor until IPO at least. They’ve already had over a year. And now they want one more. It’s not gonna happen. Time is up.
When the pilot committee approached management in January about their concerns (mainly pay and attrition), their response was “we’ll shut the airline down if we run out of pilots, until we hire and train more”. Basically we’ll just hire all new pilots before increasing pay and benefits. Now they are dragging the brand through the mud and can’t capitalize on one of the biggest traveling boom’s we’ve ever seen. They’ve lost millions in charters alone because they can’t staff the airplanes. ALPA will likely get voted in and breeze doesn’t have the luxury of drawn out negotiations. Hopefully things get figured out quickly because the airline has a lot of potential.