Schedule Reductions
03-22-2020 | 05:38 AM
#111
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Personally, I try to work the minimum days/hours I can. When at work I do my job as asked. But I expect the company to bear the brunt of costs when need be. Not labor. And seniority should never be violated like it has been with this and repeatedly in recent years at Skywest.
03-22-2020 | 05:48 AM
#112
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Too late for that now. In a few months between the airlines that have already collapsed, will collapse, the numerous bankruptcies and the furloughs coming, there will be 10-15K pilots on the streets for a few years. Unions will be the least of our worries. This is looking like it will make the Great Depression look like a mild case of a recession in comparison. Let’s just hope the banks don’t start collapsing quickly. Suddenly “cash is king” isn’t valid any more. They are not even safe with the economic tsunami coming. Doesn’t look like the airlines are getting the bailouts. It’s gone from critical to dire in short order.
03-22-2020 | 07:25 AM
#113
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Too late for that now. In a few months between the airlines that have already collapsed, will collapse, the numerous bankruptcies and the furloughs coming, there will be 10-15K pilots on the streets for a few years. Unions will be the least of our worries. This is looking like it will make the Great Depression look like a mild case of a recession in comparison. Let’s just hope the banks don’t start collapsing quickly. Suddenly “cash is king” isn’t valid any more. They are not even safe with the economic tsunami coming. Doesn’t look like the airlines are getting the bailouts. It’s gone from critical to dire in short order.
03-22-2020 | 08:05 AM
#114
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Turn it around. What if the virus was especially hard hitting on people in their 20's and 30's? Would you expect everyone to say 'screw them', we have plenty of younger humans. Let them die'? What a ridiculous viewpoint.
03-22-2020 | 08:42 AM
#116
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Granted they didn't have vaccines then but even the optimistic estimates of a vaccine for Covid-19 exceed a few months (likely in the 1 year timeframe).
03-22-2020 | 09:31 AM
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Actually, that flu had a first wave in March. It wasn't until the "second wave" in the fall that it did the worst damage and killed the most people: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-res...eline-1918.htm
Granted they didn't have vaccines then but even the optimistic estimates of a vaccine for Covid-19 exceed a few months (likely in the 1 year timeframe).
Granted they didn't have vaccines then but even the optimistic estimates of a vaccine for Covid-19 exceed a few months (likely in the 1 year timeframe).
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