It's more then just the airline industry and leisure travel that's at risk here, but anyways, I won't argue furtherTT1900 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:19 pmI think most understand whats at stake; non-essential leisure travel. Is it nice to be able to fly to Mexico for $500? Sure. Essential, absolutely not and not worth wasting further billions on. If the current airlines go bust viable sectors will be picked up by new entrants. Will it suck for the current ownership/shareholders? Yep, but its not the governments job to look after shareholders. Critical services, cargo, and corporate/charter are all trucking right along and stand to gain. A solid portion of business travel, what's left of it, will be done by corporate/charter anyways now that many companies are actively doing the cost-benefit comparisons and have experienced the benefits of non-airline travel. Some of us see immense opportunity right now. Flamesuit on, hate away.twa22 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:54 pm I really think some of you really don't understand what's at stake here...
Also, why the hell should the 777 captain sacrific his salary for the betterment of others? I am a type of person who is willing to do whatever I can for someone to help them out, but to give up my own salary, which I have rightfully earned, is not something that is feasible. It will save what? Maybe 1 pilot? 2 at most? You can argue that if all the top dogs sacrificed their salary, they could save a lot more junior guys... Yea ok, but for how long? And then if they got saved, what would they be doing? Getting paid to sit at home because there's no flying anyways? Come on guys, be realistic about this... Besides, majority have already taken a pay cut at the majors, to the tune of 40%, so what more do you want?
Do you not see the irony in saying the 777 Captain shouldn't sacrifice his pay for the betterment of his co-workers, then demanding taxpayers sacrifice even more to maintain the lifestyle of a person who works less than twelve days a month and makes 6-7 times what the average Canadian does? Taxpayer better let that four-bar buy a better boat next year! Yes, they have rightfully earned that pay when the going was good, but now it's not (no surprise, cyclical industry) and they need to come to terms with that.
Do I think the airline industry has been dealt a crappy hand? Yes. Do I think rapid testing in place of 14-day quarantine should be given a solid look? Absolutely. Do I feel bad for colleagues who chose to keep flying and went to an airline? Of course. Do I think the government should turn good money into bad by throwing it at the airlines when every other G7 nation has shown it to be ineffective? No.
As for the 777 captain statement I made, sure, it may be a little ironic, but I did state that there have been paycuts too. And if we are talking about taxpayer dollars, there's a lot worse things our tax payer dollars are funding, but this isn't a political forum and i'm not here to talk about tax payer dollars and where it should be going
Bottom line is, we can agree to disagree, and that is fine, we all have our own opinions, but it's easy for those who are not directly impacted by this to say screw the airlines... just as I can say well screw every other industry that got a bailout, why were they more deserving?