Originally Posted by
AllYourBaseAreB
There will be no changes to your contract because the market for pilots is still strong and hiring will be going gangbusters again in 2025. A hobbled carrier with an uncertain future would only hasten it’s demise if tried to get cheap with labor that has options.
This. Plus the fact that Ch.11 is not a carte blanche for management to go scorched earth on labor. Legally the court is supposed to adjust CBA's only as necessary, to match the competitive environment. The CBA is already on the lower end of the major airline spectrum, unless management can make the case that their business niche is something else.
Originally Posted by
Chimpy
I don’t think this is accurate at all. There will always be some CFI somewhere who will take the Job. Attrition will always be a thing. The COVID hiring spree is over.
I think managers got burned with operational and strategic disruptions cause by attrition and recruiting challenges, especially the loss of experienced PIC's and instructors who are not easily replaced. While hiring has slowed, the pilots they really need to retain are also the most attractive to UAL, which recently learned it's own hard lessons about pilot experience. They'll probably remember that for a while.