Even without the third party flights going ahead, we’re still going to be overcrewed at TUI for quite some time.
Having suffered no pilot redundancies at TUI has little to do with management being nice or not being nice.
It is down to a strong representation by its pilot Union and it’s current company council.
I’m sure that when negotiations started, our management would have almost certainly had Pilot redundancies up their sleeves, along with a whole host of other losses of T&C’s.
Thankfully the relationship between Balpa and our Pilot management is the best it's been in a while, therefore the Union was able to agree a package of measures which looked at a more longer term picture for the company, including a ‘12 month paid at 80% of basic’ voluntary severance scheme for 47 of the most senior pilots on the highest (20+) year pay scales, which along with other measures has resulted in zero redundancies.
The negotiations have focused the attention of management to the longer term picture of in-house re-growth, without the need to rely on expensive third party operations.
Last edited by twogoodstarts; 4th Aug 2020 at 15:06.