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IMHO, a temporary "blanket" training "ban" on ALL training is the only FAIR solution - and a move that will enforce the point of view of ALL the pilots (with the company}.
This effectively takes "the heat" off the new hires, and the upgrades, and allows the TC's an extended training period - as required - because of outside duress.
IF CX management are willing to persist with a prolonged dispute, costing hundreds of millions of dollars from the shareholders' coffers, in an attempt to further the belief that a cry of, "We cannot afford it!!", it truly sounds a hollow ring by an UNACCOUNTABLE, EXCESSIVE management!
To date, this dispute has taken MORE THAN 210 MILLION DOLLARS from the shareholders pockets, in a matter of only 20 days.....
If ANY employee cost their company even 1% of that figure, he would have been summarily dismissed.
The current CX management has made an admirable stuff-up according to ANY figuring, as the pilots have done nothing more (or less) than to work to the exact letter of their contract.
That they CHOSE to DONATE their "goodwill" to their employer previously, should only be viewed in the context of "give and take"!
[ 23 July 2001: Message edited by: Kaptin M ]