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Originally Posted by AxlF16
If you were really essential you would have something and/or somebody more important than vacationers on board.. I wish you guys the best, but I don't think you have a winning argument since it runs counter to the point of the grant.
Edit: Maybe you could be like one of the majors and fly healthcare professionals to places they're needed for free? Maybe fly critical cargo to the US? Maybe operate repatriation flights for the DoS? Those are the kind of things that feed the 'essential' argument. You may not like the effect of being essential with regard to the RLA, but you apparently want the cheese now.
Stupidest post ever. Essential is also moving people to be with family who may be sick or dying. It's also about moving Soldiers and Sailors to and from duty stations. It's also about moving some, albeit far less than legacy, business. And a host of other reasons. If it were not true they wouldn't have run EAS B1900s between small towns and larger cities throughout the US for years.
But this isn't about being essential, it's about keeping the payroll flowing to workers. The govt grant is chiefly for that reason.
What's more, if your legacy airlines didn't operate so far out ahead of their ski's they wouldn't be in such precarious straits. They're going to need far more than a mini bailout meant to keep from furloughing, and I guess I'll be paying for it like the rest of America.
We want the cheese? Give me a break. We want to keep our pilots from furlough, in hopes this gets going again soon, just like you do.