Originally Posted by
Sam Ting Wong
The matter is way more complicated than you suggest. The governmental cash injection might have been attached to certain conditions, just as an example.
I also would suggest you abandon your pilot-centric perspective, this crisis is not about which pilot is on which aircraft, it is so much bigger.
The entire Network configurations of our hub and spoke model, including subsidaries, codeshares etc, need to be recalculated, slots and traffic rights might expire if not used, aircraft leasing contracts need to be adhered to, order status and obligations need to be evaluated, legal hurdles considered, shareholder interests must be balanced, political influence needs to be managed etc etc.
You are seriously underestimating the challenge on hand.
Additionally, you don't know what options are on the table and discussed right now.
I am very happy I don't live in the hire-and-fire culture of your home country. Layoffs destroy lives and families, I hope we agree this should be an absolute last resort.
So if you are asking for furloughs... beware what you wish for, it could come true ( and possibly not the way you like it).
In the end, it doesn’t much matter if the airline goes belly up. Keeping thousands on the CX dole whilst running out of money is bad for everyone, including those potentially furloughed because they have no employer to return to.
As for the thinly veiled threat of out of seniority redundancies, bring it on. The bases would have a field day in court if that were to occur, and most of the based unions are sitting on heaps of cash to pay for legals.
Closing the bases is certainly possible, but the expense to the company would be significant, as previously discussed.
STW, I’m afraid your dreams of a command inside 20 years are no closer to reality, but actually much farther off than before the pandemic.