Essentially, this is what’s going on at KAL these days.
All the foreigners were sent home without pay in March 2020. A select few, out of seniority were brought back in two waves, after many months or years. Now they’re offering all to return, even the 380 guys that they cut off at the knees. Some will come, some won’t. Lots won’t. And talking to many, it sounds like the ME guys and others, have zero interest due to the lack of security, communication and honesty from KAL.
Now, the Koreans got a big bonus this year. They also recently got a decent pay raise. Expats? Nada, nothing. Who’s made the bigger sacrifice? The Koreans were complaining that some guys returned as they worked one month on, two off for 100% and 2/3 pay respectively. What did most the expats do? 0% pay for most of the pandemic.
The reality is they need us here. Flight ops needs different thinking (actual thinking) to seep in and improve their outdated operation.
Prime example, the latest email that said “we’re seeing an unprecedented or extreme rise in bookings for summer!”, so communing home and back will be in economy. WOW, who knew that there would be a spring back effect after people being pinned down for a couple of years???? Uh, yeah, anyone WITH A BRAIN!
They are going to be chronically short for the nexts few years. They just don’t have the training capacity, nor the brainpower to think their way out of this one. Just sit back and watch, it’s going to get interesting. Good luck to those involved!