Latest news from the frontline: the dead is still moving. Or shaking, so to say…
Saab's pilots based in Basel have just been asked by the management to confirm they would stay in Basel.
Saab's pilots based in Zurich have just been asked if they agree to be based in Basel.
Saab's pilots based in GVA and LUG have to move anyway: their crew bases are closed.
For the record, Swiss has over 100 Saab's pilots with 6 A/C of this sort remaining in service.
Now what the people forced to move to BSL are wondering about is: for how long? Should I sell my house, move the family, send the children to a new school, if I learn by the next STT that they are no Saabs anymore in the Swiss fleet? If I make a typ transition to Embraer or Avro, I'll have to move again to Zurich.
The net result of the operation is to encourage more pilots to leave the company.
That is how downsizing and restructuring works: make life impossible to them and people will leave without having to pay them a redundancy fee.
