All "front-staff" of Swissair, Balair and Crossair are doing a great job to keep the bird flying. It is a shame to see how all the early earnings have been pumped from the "management" (did they really manage things or just screwed the whole thing up ?)into some other european crab airlines. All the productivity increase by the "front-staff") did not pay off and now the "management" will be asking for a next increase. But how ?
The salary question of the Swissair and Balair drivers is a never ending story within the swiss public media. They earned and still earn very good money and have an excellent pension fund when leaving the company with 57 or so. Have no problem with that but come on.... 5% reduction on a top salary of roughly 300'000 swiss francs a year is just 15'000 a year. So where is the beef in this move ?
Swissair-drivers as mother Theresa for the new Swissair Group ?
Congratulations to the Aeropers guys, this package is an extremely rational calculated strategic move for job security.
But if the future operating costs have to be further lowered in the airline-segment, I would not bet that this will be the end of the never ending salary-story.
rtt