Originally Posted by
Noisecanceller
Any good rumor has to have some plausibility and that certainly does.
i have stopped believing anything that is rumor, there were also rumors that seemed quite plausible during the merge trial. Rumors about expedited process and the judge being pro merge and they all seemed plausible but obviously they were not. People say “where there’s smoke there’s fire, and a good rumor is like smoke So there has to be a fire”. Nonsense.
Originally Posted by
Noisecanceller
VILs are for somewhat temporary staffing issues. They only happened during Covid bc SWA lead the charge and everyone followed suit. Things happened so fast managements had to make a choice with the unknown.
Our issue is longer term. The planes parked peak at the end of the year but it’s not over. This is a multi year problem. Further and more importantly, Spirit doesn’t make money and the leadership has no vision to figure out how to make money other than wait for the ULCC market to improve which may never happen. So, they go to the only thing they know which is cut headcount. Our CBA has language for furloughs so they can and will do it if they need to.
The CBA does not allow them to cut pay or work rules so after they scare everyone with furloughs and apply cuts to the non union groups they will start their propaganda machine to pit everyone against us. If only the rich pilots would cut their pay the company will be saved. This will sew discord among the rank and file. Yet, they know that there never has been a time in history where pilot paycuts ever kept a company out of bankruptcy or saved any airline that was destined for it or to fail all together. Won’t change a thing. Never mind that when an airline shrinks we will all see substantial W2 earnings decreases anyway even without cuts. They won’t mention that part.
History tells the story and this management doesn’t have any new chapters to write so they will just do what they’ve seen and done before. This is familiar territory for them. They should give all the furloughs the “it’s not you, it’s me” speech.
the number of airplanes that will be down is still a moving number. Not all of the airplanes require Fixes once they have been inspected. We are also taking delivery of many new airplanes as well. We as a group Lisbeth panicked this way out of proportion. I just took a peak at the southwest board, an airline that is financially amazing, and they are starting talk furlough because of max 7 issues. We take one little set back and turn it into the end of the world.
i do not believe we are at the end of the world, i also do not believe that we dee furloughs.