Counterpoint wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 3:10 am
If ALPA AT won’t allow their pilots to do OT until they are all back flying so be it. Their members suffered far more harm than we have.They have two fleet types and so recalls and training are easier. Again, I see their ability to balance that no OT stance as easier and more appropriate compared to ours.
What? Piece of advise. Don’t say that to a furloughs face. It won’t go well.
Furloughed Transat Pilots stayed on CEWS. Furloughed ACPA pilots ended up on EI with substantially less benefit.
ACPA furloughs are running out of benefit as I type. Some have ZERO income.
600 Furloughed Transat pilots. 600 Furloughed AC pilots.
Transat Pilots negotiate no overtime to get furloughs back. ACPA pilots working VO and keeping furloughs on the street longer. Allowing vacation buy backs and best fit.
Because of this Transat pilot furloughs will be shorter. AC furloughs will be longer. Longer and less benefit than Transat pilots.
Transat does not give language changes that reduces crews required. ACPA gives best fit which reduces crews required and increases the VO premium to 100% for reserve working a Gday. That will attract even more overtime to keep furloughs on the street. You know those furloughs you nonchalantly brush off as not harmed much yet have run out of any benefit.
You didn’t right size us. You gave the company a de facto reduction in required pilots.
There is a reason for all the hostility. It didn’t simply breed itself. People have genuinely had enough. Either ACPA has AC’s interest foremost on its mind, or ACPA is incompetent.
It doesn’t matter which. The path forward is the same.