Originally Posted by
dmhpilot
Ed just announced a raise of $500m for non-cons. Thats 10% of last year’s profit for 80% of the workforce. Numbers greatly rounded.
Pretty much on the same day as they let a bunch of workers go, talk about salt in the wound to them.
In other news, it's 0800 and we've already cancelled 165 flights today. At this rate, we're on our way to cancelling more flights than an airline that ceased operations today (RIP Spirit! Great people over there). I saw on the 1May engage podcast, they said no major movement in the contract talks, which isn't a great sign. Sadly, it looks like this summer is going to get real ugly, real fast.