Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Avantair is still hiring & taking delivery of growth airplanes, right? They wouldn't be the first aviation company to "hire until they fire" but if so, a veiled furlough threat if folks don't take a ridiculous schedule is about as close to a hollow threat as you can get.
Take what BTDT (a disgruntled ex-employee who quit in a big huff when he wasn't upgraded in 1yr) "heard" from some "crew" in "Dallas" with a grain of poop.
Avantair is just trying to save money during hard economic times to make us the strongest player in the industry. Is that so bad? Personally I think it's admirable to ASK the pilots to VOLUNTEER rather than just making a blanket change across the board. When the first suggestion was not popular, management and the pilot committee went back to the drawing board to try to find something that would work with our cost-savings measures that would also be acceptable to a majority of the pilots. When was the last time you heard an aviation company do something like that?