Originally Posted by
samca
I agree we need to be objective here and do not deviate of the main threat. I never felt pressure from the company times that I called fatigue.
in other hand I think people is upset for the way that the company treat them at the end without reason, maybe wrong strategy by WIZZAIR or maybe correct... the time will say.
maybe the common sense it would be to take 2 months of reduction salaries and analyze the market for starting to fly in June like Ryanair did it. They would not close any door and keep their pilots ready to fly as soon as the market start to recover but they have been selfish in that way and maybe lot of pilots will find a job and never will return after the crisis finish.
time will say but for sure the strategy was completely opposite of Ryanair that always has been a mirror for WIZZ.
The majority of RYR pilots are only paid by the hour, I believe. No flying equals to no paycheck. Even when that month has been designated as contractual annual leave or when the pilot has reached the maximum hours per year at about mid-November.
Nobody knows when and how the COVID-19 havoc is going to end. Maybe some flights within the EU will be restored by July. Maybe it will be as bad as it is now until October. Maybe a fraction of the capacity will be restored for some weeks or months, only to be grounded again by a second wave in the autumn. With no end in sight, you can only keep people on any kind of salary for that long. And unpaid leave cannot go on for eternity either since in most states one cannot claim unemployment benefits while being on unpaid leave. So, as terrible as it is, what happened to everyone who lost their jobs last week wasn't exactly unexpected. We can only hope that things get sorted ASAP and the market starts recovering.