Originally Posted by
Ollie Onion
The word around the unions is possibly another 100 pilots to go in round 2.
I know it has to be bottom up to be IAW the CEA, but wow, the mountain of training that is being created! The A320 will be the biggest fleet in the near term but there will be almost no FO's left and a good chunk of Capt's will be down-trained (with many not choosing to do the simple seat swap and heading off to be a widebody FO)
Supposedly 40 senior pilots accepted a voluntary redundancy, then the company only offered approximately 50% of what is in the contract! Unsurprisingly no one accepted the offer!