Originally Posted by
LostWanderer
I doubt the ever loving and caring AJ has it in his heart to keep all the pilots and FAs on the books til flying picks up again. Sincerely hope it's not the case but my guess is that significant redundancies at international will be virtually a given and as previously pointed out, likely end game is to be majorly restructured with some less than stellar wages/conditions for crews when things pick up again in a few years time...basically managements wet dream for pilot pay.
They know very well that they have the pilots by the beanbags now in this economic environment and god knows they will capitalise on it down to the last cent. There will be some big and nasty change coming. No pilot at any airline has any leverage anymore, I'm generally an optimist believe it or not! but being a realist now, gotta accept the inevitable for our industry.
Is that to speculate the 747 and possibly A380 won't be flying for a long time, if ever?