Effectively increasing the block hour unit cost in this environment is not something the accountants would have recommended.
The recent murmurs of everyone getting their notice and them offering COS20 -1200 or so pilots (whether they be redundant or on furlough, whatever that may mean) just sounds a lot more like a corporate solution given the amount of flying we will all be doing for the foreseeable future.
We will see soon enough, either way it is going to suck. I however don’t see them keeping the same contracts for everyone whilst they cut off the cheapest part of their workforce. It might not be fair, but life isn’t fair is it.