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Originally Posted by boxthrower
Don’t become the new PSA y’all. Furloughs are better than concessions. PSA already shut the door on any concessions and most of the junior pilots are okay with it. You need a good company to come back to should you choose to go back when recalled. If a single WO takes concessions AA will expect the other two to do the same. That’s why Envoy hates PSA so much.
There is a logic to furloughing from the bottom rather than cutting everybody. The youngest and least likely to have high living expenses are the first and second year FO's. Their college loans are probably the biggest expense. They won't be needing a crashpad, can probably still live at home, probably don't have their own home, wife/husband or kids in private schools. They can get the proverbial job at home depot and still be making close to what they were as a new hire FO.
More senior guys, and Captains probably are not in the situation to grab an entry level job in another industry to ride out a furlough without filing bankruptcy.
Yes, there are exceptions; but in general this is a big picture fly over of the situation.
It makes sense to furlough from the bottom, rather than bankrupt the entire pilot group. It's amazing how these short term things turn into long term things with nothing for you to do but file a grievance and wait 2 years for a resolution. I'm sure nobody expected the 2-3 week - flatten the curve shutdown - back in March to extend for six more months.... but it has.
12-13-2020
