First of all Braathens wasn´t bankrupt!
Yes, and my four year old son believes in Santa Claus.
Secondly someone other than SAS would have bought it and I´d still have a job.
How naïve gan you get, HC? Do you really think that any buyer of BU (other than SAS
) would have kept all the BU pilots, and letting them maintain their old collective agreements without major consessions? No way! Your asses would have been whipped severely. SAS did not buy BU to be nice, and neither would any other buyer. They would have squeezed the lemon to the maximum, and you would have accepted it to keep as many jobs as you could. The only difference is that SAS wanted to use you in the inside competition in SAS group.
You might have been able to save your ass if someone other than SAS had bought BU, but at what price? The fact is that nobody wanted to buy Braathens. (In hindsight, there might have been one buyer, though, namely Bjørn Kjos and his Norwegian Air shuttle. Wouldnt that have been ironic...
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When it comes to seniority, you may not like it but it´s the law!
Try to catch a glimpse of the real world, HC: The law regulates the seniority with regard to layoffs. Nothing else.
There were actually two other scenerios if SAS hadn´t done their smartest deal in a long time.
Even the CEO of SAS has admitted that buying BU was the biggest f@ckup he has made. SAS should have let BU die, and concentrated on the competition outside the SAS Group, and not within. And we will have to live with the consequences of this f@ckup for many years to come.
Just a little hint: Try to remember which company bought which the next time you reply.