Originally Posted by
AirUK
When all this is over, you’ll be lucky if you still have a flying job.
Easyjet is a low-cost airline - if they’re still a going concern following a period of making absolutely NO money and deciding to pay out £170m in dividends and the overheads are too high, then they’ll have to lower them until they do. That’s their business model...
I’d forego that free cup of tea and a sandwich if it meant I could maintain my flying career AND put food on the table for my loved ones.
Be realistic - post-COVID-19 aviation will be a different landscape for all concerned and probably for some time, sadly.
But, the proposed deal changes that upset everyone, had no meaningful cost-saving constituents. So there is no debate about saving the airline on that front. I am pretty sure everybody would agree to unpaid leave, reduced hours, whatever, for as long as is necessary and temporary reductions of roster protections, no day off payments, etc, etc with a review in coordination with BALPA every three months or so. It is truly unfortunate that the dividend payment would have paid the entire workforce for two months+! But I guess that payment was for the previous financial year and is binding in some way.