Originally Posted by
kangaroota
I'm not privy to pay scales but maybe someone can answer this question. If a 14% pay cut across the board saves 74 jobs, what sort of pay cut would be required to save 279 jobs?
It doesn't work that way.
14% is simply one part of the package. In that package, the company has agreed to base Pilot numbers on 60 hour rosters and not the optimum of ~75 hours. It's that reduction in efficiency which has saved 74 Jobs.
I gave a more detailed account of this in a previous post, but as per the CEA, the Redundancy trigger is less than 60 hours average for 3 rosters or more (predicted or actual). There is no re-hire trigger in the CEA. The company is free to fly everyone at 90 hour rosters if they wish without re-hiring anyone back.
Clearly, the 387 is not based on today's schedule, but what they envisage in the long term. At which point, we'll no longer be on 86% Pay.
We could of taken a 25% cut but the result would be the same unless we modified the contract even more. The more Pilots the company carry, the lower the average hours, and if they're below 60, that's the redundancy trigger.
Now, the Company have also said those willing to take a 50% Cut can save Job on a 2:1 basis or 1:1 if they take LWOP. These options must be taken up for a minimum of 12 months however to save jobs.
With ratification of the AFFA the company have agreed to 896 "Full-time Pilots" (ignoring the ~40 or so 65+ guys on LWOP). By taking LWOP or 50%, we can increase the number of Pilots while keeping the FTE number the same. We find out today how many have offered to take those options.